Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, students across all ages and income levels experienced declines in verbal reasoning, flexible thinking and memory — core cognitive competencies reflected in ...

Productivity gurus claim that the best time of day to perform different types of cognitive tasks varies substantially based on the body's biological clock, but a new study led by sleep scientists ...

Researchers have found that extracting drawing features from a combination of five drawing tasks -- rather than from any single task alone -- leads to more accurate classification of people with ...

We pride ourselves on doing more in less time, juggling emails, decisions, and deadlines as if productivity were a ...

Decades of exercise research data support the common view that steady workouts over the long haul produce not only physical benefits but also improved brain function. But what about single bursts of ...

As we move into this high-speed AI era, it might be worth asking ourselves: are we actually looking for more "efficiency," or do we just need a minute to breathe? The next time you find yourself doing ...

As AI becomes an active participant in our cognitive lives, the line between thought partner and substitute is becoming ...

Participants who used AI to solve basic math and reading comprehension questions did worse than their peers who did not rely ...

A new study led by researchers at MIT titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task” offers a revealing window into what may happen ...

We asked 322 mothers of young children about who in their family is responsible for 30 common household tasks. We found a ...