Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research ...

This is where Collective Adaptive Intelligence (CAI) comes in. CAI is a form of collective intelligence in which the ...

In the late 19th century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published an influential book exploring memory and learning. Ebbinghaus was the first to chronicle a learning phenomenon which became ...

In a classic experiment in the field of cognitive psychology conducted by Godden and Baddeley in 1975 [1], 18 divers learned lists of words either on dry land or underwater. The researchers found that ...

Researchers at EPFL have found that an existing drug used to treat cancer, among other things, also seems to improve memory. Intriguingly, tests in mice show that the drug works by switching on genes ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re having dinner with your family or friends. Suddenly, your beverage gets knocked over, and it spills all over the table, making a mess. Think back to that moment.

How much vitamin D can boost memory, learning and decision-making in older adults, and how much is too much? A unique study found that overweight and obese older women who took more than three times ...

What would it be like to be able to remember anything you ever learned? Would it be a blessing or a curse? Beginning in the early 20th century, psychologists have identified numerous cases of people ...