Researchers have long established that hormones significantly affect the brain, creating changes in emotion, energy levels, ...

Perceptual learning and visual cognition constitute an interdisciplinary field that investigates the brain’s remarkable capacity to refine visual processing through experience. By examining how ...

As AI becomes more prevalent in education, work and social life, research is increasingly focused on understanding its nuanced effects on core cognitive functions such as memory, attention and creativ ...

Our lab studies how people learn and how we can make learning more efficient and effective for students from all backgrounds. We focus on three big goals: Understanding when and why certain learning ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

A new study reports that the widespread cognitive difficulties in children with learning problems appear to be a core feature ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

People from countries where multilingualism was common were 2.17 times less likely to experience accelerated ageing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Lately there’s been a push to acquaint educators with “the science of ...

Multimedia learning describes learning through the use of pictures and words. Examples of multimedia learning include watching a PowerPoint presentation, watching a pre-recorded lecture or reading a ...