A new comedic play and a 20-year neurology study explore what we can do to prevent dementia and cognitive decline.

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This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...

A: When your body is working at max capacity, your brain is overwhelmed by physical signals—breathing, heart rate, and muscle fatigue. At that level of intensity, the “distraction” or “boost” from ...

Psychological resilience has emerged as a foundational construct within the field of positive psychology, capturing the capacity for individuals to adapt ...

When it comes to the role of AI in our lives, the conundrum we have to crack is if—and how consciously—we inhabit our own minds.

The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

As social media becomes the core domain of information interaction in the era of big data, the emotional information contained in the vast amount of user-generated content provides an unprecedented ...

For serious readers willing to grapple with its complexity, it offers not definitive answers but a radical reframing of one ...