Psychological research shows that intolerance of uncertainty limits reasoning ability. Highly intelligent individuals tend to ...

The brain's frontal lobe may be organized in a front-to-back continuum, with concrete decision-making occurring toward the back of the lobe and abstract thought toward the front, according to a recent ...

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Imagine you’re on a first date, sipping a martini at a bar. You eat an olive and patiently listen to your date tell you about his job at a bank. Your brain is processing this scene, in part, by ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or even years. Fast sensory spikes, slow reflections, and everything in between ...

What is a brain age gap, and how may it affect thinking and memory skills? MINNEAPOLIS — The difference between the brain’s predicted age and actual chronological age, called a brain age gap, may ...

Whoever first said the brain is like a muscle was closer to the truth than they probably knew. Spend an hour wrestling with a crossword puzzle, tackling a Sudoku grid, or calculating the area under a ...