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From “brain boost” videos to creating games from scratch, a Wisconsin P.E. teacher shares how projects engage his elementary ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

Reading, writing, playing board games, and learning a new language could help keep the mind sharp, new research finds. A new study looked at the link between cognitively enriching activities and the ...

Summary: A paradigm-shifting study has upended a decades-long neurological assumption that learning speed depends entirely on repetition and experience rather than the size of a reward. The research ...