For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

Certain cognitive skills help improve memory naturally. Strengthening focus, logic, language, and emotional control can ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...

Want to be able to increase your learning speed, make smarter decisions, and increase your overall intelligence? Science to the rescue. Most of us wait tend to wait until the last minute to learn what ...

In the late 19th century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published an influential book exploring memory and learning. Ebbinghaus was the first to chronicle a learning phenomenon which became ...

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

In a classic experiment in the field of cognitive psychology conducted by Godden and Baddeley in 1975 [1], 18 divers learned lists of words either on dry land or underwater. The researchers found that ...

When it comes to taking notes, new research indicates that writing by hand may stimulate the brain more than typing. Handwriting was found to be better for learning and memory in comparison to typing ...

Researchers at EPFL have found that an existing drug used to treat cancer, among other things, also seems to improve memory. Intriguingly, tests in mice show that the drug works by switching on genes ...

Traditionally, forgetting names, skills, events or information is often thought of as purely negative — a passive decay. However unintuitive it may seem, research suggests that forgetting plays a ...