Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after ...

Your Brain's Night Shift A 2023 study found a strong link between the content of dreams and the consolidation of newly formed ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

We tend to break things down into smaller components to make remembering easier. Event Segmentation Theory explains how we do ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...