Having a hard time remembering what people say in conversations? You're not alone, and there are strategies to help!
Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...
A new study reveals that intentional memory control—deciding what to remember or forget—is more powerful than emotional influence when forming long-term memories.
This month’s executive function skill of focus is working memory. As a reminder, executive function (EF) skills are brain-based skills that help us get things done. For those of us with ADHD, we often ...
I thought doing lots of things at once made me super-efficient, but it's one of the worst things you can do for your brain. I ...
So since we all learn best by doing, it only makes sense that testing yourself — as long as you do it the right way — is the ...
President Bola Tinubu, in his address to mark Nigeria’s 65th Independence anniversary, attempted all three. He invoked the ...
Forgetting names quickly is a common experience that often reveals more than just a weak memory. Psychologists suggest it reflects unique cognitive styles, such as prioritizing context, deep thinking, ...
Our screens make life faster—but at a cost. Handwriting is fading just as evidence mounts that pen-and-paper thinking ...
Psychologists call it “offline waking rest.” In its purest form, offline waking rest can be closing your eyes and zoning out ...
In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...
Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially ...