For years, it’s been widely believed that cognitive skills decline as early as our 30s. However, a new study published in ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, researchers are shedding light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn. The team ...

The spring equinox marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The balance of daylight shifts, ...

Yet, paradoxically, we rarely remember any fragment of our existence before the age of three, and complete memories usually don’t form until around six. Some people claim to recall their first steps ...

University of Chicago Developmental psychologist Ariel Kalil has spent her career studying how parents influence childhood ...

Cornell College Assistant Professor of Statistics Tyler George and one of his classes have taken part in a newly published ...

It's not that you don't have memories from infancy — it's that you simply can't access them later in life, new research shows ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

The Station is also being prepared for a crew handover in April on the Russian Segment and an imminent departure of a cargo ...

Beijing has demanded protections for Chinese students in the U.S. after a Congressional panel asked six American universities to hand over a large amount of detailed information on their Chinese ...

A yellow "x" on a map sparked a lot of buzz this week after the National Hurricane Center identified an area of possible ...

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period -- a ...