Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music. The idea that music ...

We are all prone to motivated reasoning in which our personal goals distort our beliefs. For example, most drivers and most professors think they are above average. Ziva Kunda’s 1990 paper “The Case ...

Whether you are solving a puzzle, navigating a shopping center or writing an email, how well you do will not only depend on the task at hand but also on your internal cognitive state. In a new study ...

In a recent study conducted by the Collaborative Research Centre 940 Volition and Cognitive Control of Dresden University of Technology, psychologists systematically related the trait cognitive effort ...

But when these changes are more than you’d expect for your age it might be a sign of mild cognitive impairment. So does that ...

Science shows that telling people to increase aspirations and motivation is both illogical and ineffective in many ways ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Duke University have proposed a neuroscience framework explaining how different types of ...

Contemporary research into media communication increasingly focusses on how audiences process, respond to, and retain information presented through various channels. Cognitive processing refers to the ...

Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode "The art of choosing what to do" Why do hard-working people sometimes lose their motivation? Behavioral scientist Ayelet Fishbach explains where motivation comes from, ...

If you have ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why, lost a word that was right on the tip of your tongue, or ...