These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

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As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

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As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

Imagine you’re at your favorite coffee shop. Sadly, the barista only gets your order right about 75% of the time. According to most neuroscience research before 2025, your brain should release ...

Micro or macro thinker? This simple optical illusion will tell you a lot about how your mind works.

Try side sleeping to boost your brain’s nightly cleanup—research shows it may clear Alzheimer’s-linked proteins more ...