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

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.

Neuroscientists who have closely studied these alterations, known as "synaptic plasticity," have identified numerous molecular processes causing such plasticity. Yet an understanding of the "rules" ...

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

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

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

This process of synaptic plasticity is what produces representations of new information and experiences within your brain. In ...

Imagine waking up one day to discover that your brain is not the rigid, unchanging organ you once believed it to be, but a ...