Box jellyfish have no brains, yet were recently found to be able to learn from touch. Many brainless organisms are now forcing us to rethink what it means to learn.
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While a cup of joe or a brief nap during an all-nighter might help you feel a little more alert, it won’t offset cognitive impairments from sleep deprivation when you’re performing complex tasks.
Humans have been making symbols for numbers for thousands of years. Different cultures developed their own symbols, but all use addition and multiplication, suggesting arithmetic is a universal truth.
Too few friends or too many friends can hamper children’s learning and cognition.
Early childhood poverty is in fact a risk factor for lower educational attainment, poorer cognition and worse mental health.
From jellyfish to genius, the amazing diversity of animal minds around us evolved through five major changes in the computational capacity of brains.
Stimulants such as Ritalin and modafinil have a reputation as off-label ‘smart drugs’ that boost cognitive performance. New research suggests they have the opposite effect.
It is becoming increasingly clear that ADHD comes with self-control problems, suggesting therapy should be offered alongside drugs.
Our experiments with the critically endangered Bail myna showed some birds are bolder than others.
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of brain cancer, causing significant decline in cognitive function. New research suggests a common anti-seizure drug could help control tumor growth.
People with aphantasia are unable to deliberately bring to mind mental images. Understanding the mechanisms of aphantasia reveals that different types of cognition exist.
Learning new rules requires the suppression of old ones. A better understanding of the brain circuits involved in behavioral adaptation could lead to new ways to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Dobble is a card game that originated in France in 2009. It involves observation, articulation and speed.
Entrepreneurs are more flexible than high-level managers.
Some people have subtitles synaesthesia’ which means they see all speech appear as writing in their mind. And they only realised not everyone thinks this way when they saw a research study ad.
Chewing can impact brain function, stress, anxiety, exam performance, pain perception, as well as hunger and food intake.
A new neuropsychology study on California wildfire survivors found chronic cognitive problems in addition to anxiety and PTSD.
When we listen to music, our brain predicts what will happen next. This prediction then influences whether or not we enjoy a song.
Musk’s autistic traits and history of being bullied might help explain why he appears combative on social media
We’ve become used to the term ‘brain fog’ in connection to long COVID. But what is it and how do you know if you have it?
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