Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were less likely among adults who completed cognitive speed training with booster sessions, according to data published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: ...

In a long-running RCT, older adults who completed adaptive speed-of-processing training with boosters were less likely to develop dementia — a benefit not seen with memory or reasoning training.

And can anyone really be good at it? Our capacity to juggle several tasks at once is among the most important capabilities of ...

Cognitive control is a term used to describe the processes that enable us to think, feel, and act in flexible, goal-directed ways. Psychologists have been fascinated by the concept of cognitive ...

In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

Another important phenomenon of beta bursts, the authors write, is that they propagate across long distances in the brain, spanning multiple regions. Studying the direction of their spatial travels, ...

Objectives To evaluate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cognition in a large sample of older adults, and to examine clinical and demographic factors that might moderate ...

Researchers find that OCD brains recruit more regions to perform simple sequences, revealing new targets for TMS therapy and symptom assessment.