A new study by Brown University epidemiologists found that children on the threshold of obesity or overweight in the first two years of life had lower perceptual reasoning and working memory scores ...

Extensive training on simple tasks such as fine orientation discrimination results in large improvements in performance, a form of learning known as perceptual learning. Previous models have argued ...

November 17, 2010 — Specific handwriting impairments sometimes seen in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are likely to persist into adolescence, according to the latest study from a ...

Now those same researchers have gone further to determine whether handwriting impairments persist into adolescence and whether they remain linked to motor deficits. To find out, they tested 24 ...

While the recreational use of marijuana is an increasingly a legalized activity, the exact science of what the drug does to the brain isn’t yet conclusive. In an effort to understand what happens to ...

Forget IQ scores; true intelligence lies in subtle cognitive habits. Experts highlight rapid, flexible thinking, strong working memory, perceptual reasoning, and sophisticated verbal skills as key ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...