Parents face an increasingly difficult decision: embrace technology in children’s education or protect their developing brains. New research from cognitive neuroscientists provides a clear answer. The ...

Crucially, these maternal improvements were accompanied by developmental benefits in infants ...

A growing body of research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the development of key cognitive skills that help ...

At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function—a set of ...

The average number of children per family in the United States has fallen dramatically, from seven in 1800 to fewer than two in 2018. That’s good news for kids’ cognitive development, suggests a ...

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has been a central framework for understanding how children grow and learn. His model describes development through four sequential stages: sensorimotor, ...

Fluoride has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. In the 1950s, some believed its presence in US tap water was a communist plot to undermine America (famously satirised in the film Dr.

Understanding Cognitive Growth in Children Parents often wish for their children to be clever, intelligent, and successful.

Cognitive privacy is the freedom to think, wonder, question, struggle, and form ideas without those processes being observed or recorded. When you're learning something genuinely new, you don't just ...