Imagine that you could make yourself smarter simply by playing games. Wouldn’t that be awesome? You spend a few hours...
Everything you do requires you to exert effort. For instance, basic things like walking or cycling require physical...
Some children have a very hard time learning to read. In spite of normal intelligence and no special hearing or vision...
Adolescence is an important period when the brain undergoes many changes. Because the brain is changing so much at this...
The past few years have been marked by a large number of discoveries about the learning brain. Those insights have the...
Why do some people perform worse under pressure, even when using a familiar skill to complete a task? This is called...
How much is 2 × 4? Sounds like an easy question, but have you ever thought about how you solve that problem? In this...
In our brains, as in the brains of other mammals, such as monkeys and mice, there is an area called the hippocampus...
Spatial thinking allows you to understand the location and dimension of objects, and how different objects are related...
Everything we do (sense, move, feel, remember…) relies on the activity of neurons in the brain, the connections between...
We want to understand how children get so much better at certain cognitive abilities like reading, writing, and problem...
Do you know how to speak a foreign language? Learning another language is fun and useful! It can help you when you...
