When animals and humans explore their surrounding environment or complete specific tasks, their brains simultaneously support both their mental (i.e., cognitive) processes and physical movements. For ...

Inner speech represents a pervasive component of human cognition, interfacing language with thought to support a range of mental functions from problem-solving and memory retrieval to self-regulation.

Working memory is a critical cognitive system that temporarily maintains and manipulates information for complex tasks such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. It functions as an interface ...

Artificial intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain’s role in daily life? The Industrial Revolution diminished the need for ...

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...

We become forgetful as we age. This is often seen as a universal truth, but in fact it is far from universal: some people remain incredibly sharp at 100 years old, while others experience memory loss ...

A new cognitive study has proposed an action value calculator model to explain how infants modulate their social behaviors based on the social context. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...