“Our latest research proposal really grew out of our interactions with the blind and visually impaired community in Atlanta,” ...
Brain plasticity is what allows your brain to change its “softwiring.” For a long time, scientists believed that after a certain critical period in childhood, most of our brain’s ...
Think about how much control you have over changing the health of your heart, your brain, and your teeth. What order would you put those in—meaning, which of those do you have the most control ...
Michael Merzenich, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Soft-Wired: ...
Plasticity is a fundamental feature of the brain. Strikingly, circuit malleability is strongly elevated in infancy and childhood across modalities. Neural wiring is dramatically reorganized to reflect ...
If you've ever wondered why seemingly useless trivia stays lodged in your brain, you're not alone. Here is why we remember ...
The dads are in the house, making music for music’s sake, feeling it, and, whether they know it or not, are poster children ...