In just eight weeks, University of Delaware alumna Kiara Cronin went from not speaking any Swahili at all to testing at an intermediate proficiency level — a feat anyone who’s ever attempted to learn ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When it comes to learning, it’s not age but our brain’s plasticity that ...

Parents don't need a neuroscientist to tell them that infant brains are like little sponges, voraciously absorbing information from the surrounding environment. From birth to age 3, a child learns to ...

Neuroscientists have long searched for ways to reopen "critical periods" in the brain, when mammals are more sensitive to signals from their surroundings that can influence periods of brain ...

Results from a recent study led by Johns Hopkins University scientists show evidence of psychedelics’ potential to reopen “critical periods” in mammals’ brains, and consequently, their ability to ...

Gül Dölen is known for her research on how psychedelics affect "critical periods" and learning. Now at UC Berkeley, she's exploring how the brain engages with the drug ecstasy and what it might mean ...

In 2019, neuroscientist Gül Dölen’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that the psychedelic drug MDMA resensitizes the brains of adult mice so they can learn from ...

It’s clear from declining enrollment in foreign language courses in colleges and universities across the country that students are losing interest in language learning. As a result, institutions of ...