While the research does not point to a direct, causal link, it hints that activities like reading, writing and playing games ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Parents in China are turning to A.I. chatbots and other tools to help their children gain an edge and ease the fighting over ...

While the findings point to limits in what AI can currently reveal about everyday cognitive skills, the technology remains a powerful research tool. Weisberg said more robust models could detect ...

When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize ...

As clinical development grows more complex, sponsors are rethinking how outsourcing models, technology, and partnerships align to support both speed and sustainability. The shift toward hybrid models, ...

“SuperAgers” with superb memories in their 80s and 90s produce more new brain cells than people some 50 years younger, ...

This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...

A new study in expert birders suggests that becoming an expert in a given field could help slow down cognitive decline.

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Ellen Galinsky is president of the research nonprofit Families and Work Institute in Palisades, N.Y., served as co-lead of the AASA Summit, and is the author of The Breakthrough Years: A New ...