Physical activity is increasingly recognized for its dual role in enhancing both physical health and cognitive development. This study compared the effects of three types of in-class ...

Training exercises designed to improve cognitive control in children do not make a significant difference to their ability to delay gratification or to their academic achievement, nor do they lead to ...

Meetings continue from the morning, and in the afternoon, you check numbers in documents. Before heading home, even a simple ...

Cognitive control plays a central role in mental skills ranging from plain concentration and focus (on your homework, not that text from your BFF) to calming down after you get upset (say, when you ...

Are you able to start a task and stick with it, all the way through, ignoring the temptations of the internet or the sudden realization that you should probably do the laundry? The faculty that allows ...

Scattered plots are the effect size as a function of age, with curves fitted by GAM (blue color) and the square root model (red color). Shaded areas around the curves represent standard errors. Dashed ...

We all have challenging tasks we want to complete. Partly that’s because finding and maintaining the mental energy required is so difficult. Interruptions can feel constant. Distractions can always ...

Tomatoes are the major dietary source of lycopene, a carotenoid that crosses the blood-brain barrier and exerts antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. However, the impact of tomato consumption on ...

A new study into cognitive control promises to be the first of many aimed at understanding its origins in the brain and its variations between people and among groups. The faculty that allows people ...

Training exercises designed to improve cognitive control in children do not make a significant difference to their ability to delay gratification or to their academic achievement, nor do they lead to ...