Cognitive science has shaped how we talk about learning, but can teachers assess what they can’t observe? Exploring a more practical alternative.

For most of us, drifting off to sleep is anything but strategic. However, for Dr. Luc P. Beaudoin, a cognitive scientist and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, ...

This valuable investigation provides new and solid evidence for a specific cognitive deficit in cerebellar degeneration patients. The authors use three tasks that modulate complexity and error ...

The best quarterbacks selected in the NFL draft need physical and cognitive skills. Learn how processing speed, working ...

The MoCA test is a simple, in-office tool that can quickly determine if there is any impairment in a person's cognitive function, including their ability to understand, reason, and remember. The test ...

Quantum entanglement can link two objects even when they are separated by extremely large distances. But a new study has found a limit at which such quantum correlations stop – and surprisingly ...

Researchers found that among several cognitive abilities, verbal fluency – reflecting vocabulary and quick cognitive processing – was uniquely ... behind this connection is not clear. One popular ...

That's why it wasn't possible to test the theory beforehand," says Prof. Mormann, head of the Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and last author of the study published in Nature ...

As the researchers write, “Moments of unoccupied rest should be recognized as a critical contributor to human waking cognitive functions rather than a waste of time.” It sounds like they were ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection shut down a migrant processing facility near San Diego, Calif., following an "unprecedented drop in apprehensions." The temporary facility in Otay Mesa ...