New research led by the University of St Andrews has shown that children perform cognitive tasks faster on their own in ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

People feel motivated when they overcome challenges—not when answers are handed to them on a silver platter. If AI makes ...

New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn't prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance.

Researchers have demonstrated a new suite of software tools that analyzes student behavior in an educational game in real ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University has investigated how similar ...

To help students integrate spaced learning into their study habits, AP psychology teacher Blake Harvard uses a class activity ...

Every time two-year-old Thoriso sees his mom driving up to the house, he goes outside and does the same thing before asking ...

Researchers found that Buddhist jhāna meditation and Christian speaking in tongues, despite their differences, share a common cognitive feedback loop.

A new study reveals that both humans and marmosets continue to adjust their behavior even after learning an optimal task ...

Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration ... With roughly 800 papers to his name, many of them considered highly ...

Debunking a myth, Bar-Ilan researcher says adults with Down syndrome and nonspecific intellectual disabilities improve their cognitive functioning with postsecondary education ...