Individuals vary in their cognitive performance. While this variation forms the foundation of the study of human psychometrics, its broader importance is only recently being recognized. Explicitly ...

The study of cognitive processing encompasses the mechanisms by which individuals perceive, process, store and retrieve information. This field has increasingly focused on how inherent individual ...

In a long-term study of mountain chickadees, researchers have shown for the first time that there is a genetic component linked to the tiny birds' highly specialized spatial memory and that ...

Zmigrod, Leor, and Amit Goldenberg. "Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions." Current Directions in Psychological Science 30, no. 3 (June ...

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking ...

At any one moment of time your mind is juggling a multitude of different mental processes. Some of them are helping you pay attention to reading this. Others are helping you translate the black lines ...

A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

The committee developed an agenda for basic research to maximize the efficiency, accuracy, and effective use of human capability measurement in the military’s selection and initial occupational ...

In their classic country hit, "Wide Open Spaces," the Dixie Chicks sum up the findings of a new study which found that the structural environments that surround us either restrict, or promote, our ...