In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

Communication begins long before children learn to speak. Researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham are members of the large-scale long-term national HEALthy Brain and Child Development study consortium. Providing scientists around the world ...

But from the perspective of neuroscience, reading is much more than just entertainment. This is especially true for children and teenagers. In the young brain, reading stimulates specific cognitive ...

Figuring out the causes of why children develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been on scientists' radar ...

Laughter builds deep emotional connections and soothes youngsters' nervous systems — making them more resilient and open to ...

Researchers have identified a surprising brain pattern that may help explain why people with ADHD often struggle to stay focused. Even while awake, their brains can slip into brief episodes of ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) sound like science fiction to most people. But this technology is getting real, quickly.