This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...

Cognitive flexibility is vital for improving problem-solving skills. It allows you to adapt your thinking and approach ...

The planarian is nobody's idea of a genius. A flatworm shaped like a comma, it can be found wriggling through the muck of lakes and ponds worldwide. Its pin-size head has a microscopic structure that ...

Cognitive flexibility plays a huge role in your decision-making process. It refers to your ability to adapt your thinking and ...

Mathematics education and assessments increasingly involve arithmetic problems presented in context: a realistic situation that requires mathematical modeling. This study assessed the effects of such ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...

This study makes connections between two sources of individual variation, personality and cognition, in threatened species. Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the ...