Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Evidence from the past 20 years indicates that the use of computers in classrooms has led to declines in students' academic ...

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 ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...

Led by Clark County Educational Service Center, the professional education workgroup focuses on training healthcare professionals, educators and athletic personnel using a variety of methods and ...