Another of the most notable TikToks is of a child at a basketball game yelling '6-7' into the camera. As per The Guardian, ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

Your baby’s brain continues to develop in the coming weeks, endowing him with a remarkable range of involuntary movements like stretching, yawning, and sucking by the end of the first trimester and ...

From attention to metacognition and memory, here are 15 tips to apply the latest insights from cognitive science to how students learn.

According to Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, children under two can understand language and even communicate before they ...

Inflammation is a natural bodily process – but when it becomes chronic, it’s strongly linked with disease. Increasing evidence links inflammation in the brain, or neuroinflammation, to mental health ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...

While age-old challenges regarding the mind, self, and consciousness persist within the labyrinths of philosophy, scientists may be on the verge of solving them through empirical means, even in the ...

In research conducted by Madigan et al. (2019), involving 2,441 children aged 24, 36, and 60 months (50.2 percent boys and 49.8 percent girls), the study reported that “[a]pproximately 98% of US ...

Your brain does all kinds of strange things. Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains how it works. Your brain does all kinds of strange things — and neuroscientist Heather Berlin wants to explain how ...

Why does my toddler say "no" to everything? Say everything is "mine"? Want to crash into everything? Child development ...

Let’s face it: being the poor kid is not good. Being the poor kid surrounded by kids who live in an affluent neighborhood means you have to deal with living in a totally different reality than your ...