When our thoughts drift away from the task at hand, our brains might actually become better at unconsciously picking up ...

The FINN Lab surviving the New Hampshire winter. Assistant Professor Emily Finn’s research focuses on individual variability ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

Safety signal learning refers to the brain’s ability to recognize cues that predict the absence of threat. Safety learning ...

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, ...

Scientists say they've uncovered striking new evidence of how alcohol addiction impacts the brain's learning systems—and how those systems may slowly adapt during recovery—in a new study published in ...

As I enter deep middle age, parenting two teenagers, I find reading about brain development more interesting. The old-school view of becoming an adult at 18 (or 21) seems simple. The more recent ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...