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The cognitive shuffling technique is designed to promote sleep by mimicking how your brain naturally works when dozing off.

To truly understand sleep's role in well-being, scientists are looking directly at the brain. A new study combines detailed ...

Our enjoyment of literature and fiction is rooted in theory of mind: the cognitive ability to attribute mental states ...