Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what they should be doing. However, why they do that has remained unknown. Are ...

When humans tackle many everyday tasks, ranging from driving to completing household chores and work assignments, they rely heavily on working memory. This is the brain's ability to temporarily store ...

Being assessed as having a low Working Memory Index (WMI) on the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) means that your ...

New IQ data show those with idiopathic hypersomnia and narcolepsy retain normal cognitive ability; fatigue, not sleepiness, hits working memory. Adults living with idiopathic hypersomnia and ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

Wouldn’t we all like to be smarter? No matter how intelligent we actually are, we always know someone who at least appears to be smarter than we are (or so we believe). Whether or not intelligence can ...

The 60-day supplementation trial used Arjuna Natural’s Somin-On ingredient, which is standardized to 2% Sominone, a specific withanolide found in ashwagandha (Withania somnifera). “Our new ashwagandha ...

Cognitive-aerobic exercise improves working memory more than aerobic exercise alone in children and adolescents with ADHD, according to a new study 1 published in Frontiers in Psychology. Previous ...

Cognitive struggles are climbing across the U.S., especially among young and economically disadvantaged adults. Rates of self-reported cognitive disability nearly doubled in people under 40 between ...