The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...

In his book, The Talent Code (2009), Daniel Coyle describes how Carol Dweck, in her ongoing effort to find ways to enhance student academic performance and to also hopefully advance higher levels of ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...

WHY NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH IS GOING TO THE HEADS OF THECLASS BRAIN-BASED LEARNING (SECOND EDITION) Eric Jensen, M.A. (Brain Store Inc., 2000) FOR THE LEARNER'S SAKE: BRAIN-BASED INSTRUCTION FOR THE ...

A study reveals that the effectiveness of brain stimulation on motor skills is determined by an individual's learning ability rather than age, highlighting the need for a more personalized approach to ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

Led by Clark County Educational Service Center, the professional education workgroup focuses on training healthcare professionals, educators and athletic personnel using a variety of methods and ...