Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small adjustments to make sure it doesn't fall over. It ...

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

A 20-year study found a brain game that boosts speed and splits attention helped prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

A recent study found that a short afternoon nap may offer brain health benefits, such as clearing the mind and improving ...

Activities like learning a new language as a child or reading, writing, and playing board games later in life all had an impact on Alzheimer’s risk.

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, ...