Neuroscientists are increasingly convinced that the fastest way to learn something new is not to grind longer, but to pause more often. A growing body of research suggests that a tiny, deliberate ...

Bilingualism has a profound impact on the structure and function of the brain, but it is not yet well understood how this experience influences brain functional organization. We examine a large sample ...

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...