Despite a new generation of fathers in straight marriages spending more time with their children, the majority of household and childcare work still falls on women. It’s not just the physical labor, ...

There’s a phrase that has haunted America for decades, one fraught with failure: “Breaking the cycle of poverty.” Despite the ongoing efforts of government and a host of private foundations, income ...

Artem Zakirin, CTO of software development company Inktech, explains the 'cognitive load' that leads to wasted time and effort and how to reduce it. According to Zakirin, cognitive load can be summed ...

Joseph is the Co-founder and CEO of Cultivate, building leadership development and future-of-work technology for the digital workforce. We have just witnessed one of the fastest digital ...

A longitudinal cohort study showed that a higher amyloid-beta (Aβ) load in centenarians was associated with poorer cognitive performance, particularly executive functioning. Two thirds of centenarians ...

Cognitive fatigue manifests when the brain is overworked or stressed from prolonged periods of mental effort. This form of fatigue can impair attention, decision making, reaction times, and emotional ...

In research on task-based learning and teaching, it has traditionally been assumed that differing degrees of cognitive task complexity can be inferred through task design and/or observations of ...

We may think we know the telltale signs of lying, be it shifty eyes or nervous fidgeting. Professional interrogators look for such tells, too, assuming a suspect’s nervousness betrays his guilt. But ...