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Cognitive Development
Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.
Chess could perhaps be the ultimate window through which we might see how our mental powers shift during our lives.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
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Find food, have sex, not die. That’s pretty much all we need to do — but why do we make it so complicated?
Your five-year-old can probably spot a cop-out.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
But they're still lovable.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
It's time for Tetris.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
There is no long-term beneficial effect of medication on standardized test scores.
Does memory start to work only at a certain age?
Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.
Screens were around in previous generations, but now they truly define childhood.
The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.
Lessons from child development research teach us how we learn to trust others.
Kids' underdeveloped brains seem to help them acquire new languages with little effort.
Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]