Teens' Penchant For Risk-Taking May Help Them Learn Faster
Daphna Shohamy, PhD, and her team test whether teens' drive for rewards, and the risk-taking that comes from it, exist for a reason.
Daphna Shohamy, PhD, and her team test whether teens' drive for rewards, and the risk-taking that comes from it, exist for a reason.
Daphna Shohamy, PhD, found that teens are great at learning because of the nifty way their brains thread together memory-formation processes.
Impulsivity in teens may serve a noble (and necessary) cognitive purpose, according to research from Daphna Shohamy, PhD.
A new mathematical model of memory by Stefano Fusi, PhD, and team could accelerate the quest to build brain-inspired hardware.
This summer, city high school students worked with the world's leading neuroscientists.
Randy Bruno, PhD, weighs in on a new anatomical understanding of how movement controls the body’s stress response system
Mark Churchland, PhD, studies the brain activity behind voluntary movement and swimming can serve as a great example of that.
Studies by Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD, and others in rodents are beginning to reveal how mammalian navigational sense works.
Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, weighs in on what we can learn from imaging the human brain.
Study led by Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD, shows two layers of brain cells: one for a map and one for path to a location.