As our attention spans and cognitive abilities are increasingly damaged by digital overuse and AI-mediated shortcuts, the ...

In the last two decades, cognitive science has made remarkable progress in unraveling the mysteries of how we learn, uncovering numerous approaches to optimize and enrich the learning experience.

Getting older often involves a series of challenges, such as cognitive decline, social isolation, and late-life depression. Memory decline, especially decline in episodic memory and working memory, is ...

How we process the world—absorbing, interpreting, and responding to our surroundings—is never a one-way street. No two people will look at the same painting on a warm afternoon and walk away with an ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

Much has been written about the “return to normal” expected across college campuses this fall. Students are again filling lecture halls, and courses have migrated back to the physical classroom after ...

Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more ...