A new study has identified a marker in the brain that controls the ability to reach and grasp, a fundamental fine motor skill that is often impaired in motor or neural injuries such as a stroke. The ...

Researchers reveal that preterm babies' brains respond to rhythmic sounds, indicating early rhythm processing crucial for ...

When the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry makes a free throw, his brain draws on motor memory. Now researchers at UC San Francisco have shown how this type of memory is consolidated during sleep, ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have discovered that the brain reorganizes itself extensively across ...

Neuroscientists there found that when people learn a new motor skill, their brains don’t just generally “consolidate” the memory during sleep. Instead, the brain sends targeted bursts of activity ...

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland finds that physical fitness and moderate, active screen time improve ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a method to calculate whether someone's brain is aging faster or slower than their chronological ...