Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to ...

An NIH-funded project leverages advanced synapse imaging to monitor real-time neuronal changes during learning, unveiling new ...

This process of synaptic plasticity is what produces representations of new information and experiences within your brain. In order for your brain to produce the correct representations during ...

Neuroscientists believe that synaptic plasticity, as these changes are called, plays an important role in storing memories. However, the rules governing when and how much synapses change are not ...

Researchers have long sought to understand the biological mechanisms that underlie learning. We know that the brain forms ...

Neurobiologists discovered that individual neurons can apply different plasticity rules in separate dendritic branches. This ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains?

Synaptic plasticity is the biological process by which specific patterns of synaptic activity result in changes in synaptic strength and is thought to contribute to learning and memory.

New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.