FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno State professor is seeing success by having her students learn with the help of virtual reality. Fresno State Biology Professor and neuroscientist Anahit Hovhannisyan ...
The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...
The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...
Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and ...
Most teachers worldwide still believe myths about learning decades after they have been debunked. Here are the most common.
Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...
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, ...
New research suggests that consciousness originates in the subcortex, and is polished by the cortex and cerebellum.
Hearing a special song can instantly transport someone to a favorite memory from their past, and there is no question that music is an important element of life.
How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...
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 ...
The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The parts of ...