Chronic stress and perceived social support may play a role in how memory and thinking abilities change with age, according ...

A new study provides evidence that the relationship between using screens to soothe upset children and the development of ...

The relationship between cognitive ability in childhood and financial well-being in adulthood varies for different financial measures—such as savings levels versus having debt—per a new analysis of ...

Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be like decades later, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research ...

Could the way we think in our 20s offer clues about our risk of dementia decades later? Large population studies suggest that people who perform better on thinking ability tests in adolescence or ...

People with higher incomes also score higher on IQ-tests—up to a point. At high incomes the relationship plateaus and the top 1% score even slightly lower on the test than those whose incomes rank ...

Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.

Optimistic thinking has long been immortalized in self-help books as the key to happiness, good health and longevity but it can also lead to poor decision making, with particularly serious ...

Cognitive decline involves a gradual loss of thinking skills, including memory, reasoning, and attention. While some decline is typical with aging, significant changes could indicate a cognitive ...

"Video games are rotting your brain." This is a statement every gamer has heard atleast once in their life – maybe from a ...

As of 2016, more than 650 million adults globally had obesity, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Previous studies have linked obesity to a greater risk for cognitive decline.