Essential reading for those working directly in the cognitive sciences or in related specialist areas, Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides an instant overview of current thinking for scientists ...

Children of less-educated mothers saw a large cognitive gain from basic schooling compared to peers with more-educated ...

For many who watch videos on the internet — such as TikTok or YouTube — speed-watching has become a thing. It’s an ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between different stimuli.

A new study finds rare neural stem cells in the adult human hippocampus, suggesting some brains can generate new neurons into ...

Smarter people don’t just crunch numbers better—they actually see the future more clearly. Examining thousands of over-50s, Bath researchers found the brightest minds made life-expectancy forecasts ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

A major study suggests that smoking could be one of the most powerful lifestyle habits affecting how quickly our thinking skills decline with age. The research, led by scientists at University College ...