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 ...

How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning process.

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...