A small lab-based study found that a 12-week cycling program improved inhibitory control over six weeks. This adds to the evidence that exercise can be an effective strategy for improving cognitive ...

Focus is a problem. On average, people work for only three minutes before getting distracted or interrupted — and then it takes an average of 23 minutes to get back to that original task. Technology ...

You’ve probably heard of dopamine, oxytocin, and cortisol. Maybe you know dopamine has something to do with feeling good, oxytocin is linked to bonding, and cortisol is that stress chemical you’d ...

Glancing at your phone can begin to compromise your cognitive skills once it passes a certain threshold. Studies from ...

Boredom is everywhere - it occurs frequently across groups and cultures. One study followed 3,867 people and asked them about their boredom every half hour for 10 days. People were bored in about 3% ...

There’s a science to creativity, which is a good thing for me, because I never considered myself a very creative person. I’m a neuroscientist, raised in a family of accountants and engineers.

Think of eating healthy foods as plugging in the fastest, most efficient charger to power up the battery of your brain. Or as high-octane fuel that keeps the engine of your brain humming efficiently ...

What happens to our brains as we get older? Well, for the most part, they shrink—but not all of this shrinkage is inevitable. To find out how to slow, and even reverse, age-associated brain shrinkage, ...

You spent over a decade in classrooms memorizing facts, cramming for tests, and highlighting textbooks. Yet nobody ever taught you how to actually learn. The education system focused on what to learn ...