We usually don't think much about it, but our brain is pretty amazing! This three-pound organ is in charge of everything ...

To improve the reading culture, Uganda needs to increase access to diverse books, bridge the digital gap, encourage parental ...

Our guide was a man in his mid-thirties, Josh Judd. Judd taught me that childhood dreams are real and possible. At the age of ...

It's not that you don't have memories from infancy — it's that you simply can't access them later in life, new research shows ...

Zara Phillips' film challenges Disney's adoption portrayals. Raw, honest look at reality, not sanitized stories.

Doug Bolton. Evanston resident Doug Bolton is a clinical psychologist and educator who was the principal of a public ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

Young brains are inherently designed for thinking. Preschool represents the start of formal learning, rather than merely ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

Why can't we remember when we were babies? Scientists who scanned infants' brains found that they do make memories. The ...