You must learn to save yourself. Waiting for rescue keeps you trapped. Waiting for motivation keeps you stuck. Waiting for ...

Study after study finds students’ motivation to learn is often driven by their relationships with their teachers, but a new report suggests many new educators enter the classroom with inconsistent ...

Researchers from MIT have identified a brain circuit that may explain why, as people age, they tend to lose motivation to learn new things. Striosomes are cells that are located in the striatum part ...

New research suggests that motivation acts less like a volume knob for effort and more like a camera lens that changes how ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- As people age, they often lose their motivation to learn new things or engage in everyday activities. In a study of mice, MIT neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that ...

Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to engage in activities for their inherent satisfaction, is a fundamental aspect of effective learning. This concept, rooted in the principles of ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Are you thinking about learning a language? Perhaps you’ve decided that it’s time to dust off your classroom ...

Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study in Cell on October 27 identified the cause of the declining motivation to learn among elderly. MIT Institute ...

Neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit critical for learning to make decisions that require evaluating the cost or reward of an action. They showed this circuit is negatively affected by ...