A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Other studies have painted a grimmer picture, suggesting that AI may impair performance or cognitive abilities such as critical thinking skills. One paper showed that the more a student used ChatGPT ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...

In the arena of cognitive psychology, scientists typically devise laboratory tasks that have little to do with everyday life in order to test a theoretical model. Findings from such experiments help ...

How we process the world—absorbing, interpreting, and responding to our surroundings—is never a one-way street. No two people ...

Cancer related cognitive impairment in patients can stem from the cancer itself as well as the therapies used to treat it.

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Milan Kundera opens his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with a scene from the winter of 1948. Klement Gottwald, leader of ...