5 ways to add a little inconvenience to your day — and improve your brain

Making life harder sounds deeply unfun, but it might be good for your cognitive function.

20 minutes of cycling can make your brain fitter

Even a brief time spent on a bedside pedal device has positively impacted an area of the brain related to memory, according ...
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In the brain, a fraction of a second separates learning from movement

In A Nutshell A timing gap of just 50 to 100 milliseconds determines whether a dopamine signal in the brain drives learning ...
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Brain scans shed light on how short videos impair memory and alter neural pathways

A recent brain imaging experiment reveals that watching fragmented short videos leads to measurably worse memory recall ...
Kaleido Scope

How the Brain Changes During Learning and Why Loving the Material Matters

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...
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Is your brain actually getting better with age? How 'super-agers' are defying biology in their 60s and 80s

Forget the myth of cognitive decline; new research and real-life "super-agers" prove that strategic thinking and memory can ...
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Cells Outside The Brain Show Signs Of Memory And "Learning" For The First Time

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...
Psychology Today

The Hippocampus, Learning, Brain Injury, and Rehabilitation

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...