Research Hit: Your Brain Switches Between Remembering and Learning

Learning and memory are key functions of the brain and ones that attract a lot of attention and research – and interest from normal folk like us. After all who wouldn’t like to know how to use one’s brain to learn and remember things better.

These two functions are, however, closely related. Memorising things is a part of learning - so are they part of the same process or part of separate processes in the brain? And does this happen in parallel or sequentially?