How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record ...

Hearing just 16 seconds of music helps your brain predict what comes next, shaping memory, emotion, and how songs make sense.

For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting ...

A machine learning model has helped explain how the brain recognizes the meaning of communication sounds, such as animal calls or spoken words. The algorithm described in the study models how social ...

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

For decades, scientists have worked to peer deeper into the brain. They have wanted to see not just surface activity in the cortex but also the hidden layers beneath, such as the hippocampus, where ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have assumed the dog learned this through repetition. The more times the dog heard ...