The human brain's cerebellum controls the body's ability to tightly and accurately coordinate and time movements as fine as picking up a pin and as muscular as running a foot race. Now, Johns Hopkins ...

Do you remember the name of your second-grade teacher or what you ate for lunch today? Those memories may be separated by decades, but both are considered long-term memories. More than half a century ...

The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") has long been considered the seat of muscle memory and learning new motor skills. When I was growing up, my father, who was both a neuroscientist and my ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Everyday behaviors, such as braking at a red light or opening an app upon seeing a notification, are shaped by associative learning, wherein the brain links sensory cues to motor ...

“Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been. A good hockey player plays where the puck is; a great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” —Wayne Gretzky Ice hockey legend ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has ...