Imagine seeing a dozen pictures flash by in a fraction of a second. You might think it would be impossible...

To learn new motor skills, the brain must be plastic: able to rapidly change the strengths of connections between neurons,...

If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become...

As anyone who has traveled with young children knows, maintaining focus on distant goals can be a challenge.

The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony...

Human sleeping and waking patterns are largely governed by an internal circadian clock that corresponds closely with the 24-hour cycle...

Now researchers from MIT, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was on the right...

A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by...

Instead, a drone operator — often a seasoned fighter pilot — spends most of his shift watching and waiting, as...

A position on the list is highly coveted as a source of free publicity, but the selection of topics is...

Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the...

Suppose someone showed you a novel gadget and told you, "Here's how it works," while demonstrating a single function, such...

Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report for the first time how animals' knowledge obtained through past...