After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...

Schools today can look like something we might have seen on the 1960s cartoon show “The Jetsons.” These days, students of all ...

Fear of the New Is Fine Fear is a multifaceted emotion made up of various elements. It manifests as a reaction to a perceived ...

I discussed how the interaction between three particular brain networks supports creative thinking: the executive attention network, the default mode network (which I called the “imagination ...

Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered. People who spend more years at school or in education are likely to deteriorate from the neurodegenerative disease ...

Although no single food can improve mental sharpness, focus, and memory, some research shows that a nutrient-rich diet with plenty of omega-3 fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals is important ...

Their goal was to learn where a cartoon bag containing coins would ... we are already thinking about the brain as a network," explained Zhang. "In this paper, we built a model that predicts ...

Back in December, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking was announced as Google’s first reasoning model and an updated experimental version is now available to test. We’ve also enabled code execution as ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand what’s going on outside and inside the body. This allows a person to use their body to interact with their surrounding environment and ...

The good news is that there are lots of researchers out there testing interventions that can help parents encourage critical thinking — for both kids as young as three to pre-teens and adolescents.