When cognitive load climbs beyond a certain threshold, the quality of thinking degrades in ways we can’t detect from the inside. The brain doesn’t send a notification. What it sends instead is a set of signals, many of which look like the opposite of the problem. Five stand out.
Many of us probably don't get much time to put pen to paper these days, with our world of correspondence now dominated by digital communication. But a new study from Portugal's University of Évora suggests that changes in handwriting could be an early red flag of serious age-related cognitive…
When was the last time you paid attention to your commute? And I don’t mean a couple of feet in front of you, at the car merging into your lane without a blinker. I mean really paid attention to the route you take. Did you see the landmarks in the distance that make up the city…
“The problems I focused on in Deep Work, and in my writing since, have been getting steadily worse. In 2016 my main concern was helping people find enough free time for deep work. Today I think we’re rapidly losing the ability to think deeply at all, regardless of how much space we can find in our schedules for these efforts.”
45 years ago, the first cases of AIDS were identified in the US. In the early years, an AIDS diagnosis was almost always a devastating death sentence. But thanks to tremendous work by the global scientific community, treatments for the physical effects of HIV infection have come light years since then. Now, many people are able to live life to the fullest despite an HIV infection.
When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine.
Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in “cognitive surrender” to AI’s seemingly authoritative answers.
A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the stone piece was believed to be some kind of board game – but obviously no rulebook was dug up to…
“Questions are answered as you move, not before you move. Moving forward with an answer that is partially correct will usually fill in the gaps faster than waiting until you come up with a plan that is perfectly correct.”
Brain training reached a turning point in 2025, after years of growing evidence snowballed into an avalanche of scientific proof. A surge of new research about BrainHQ helped erode long-standing skepticism, with a record-breaking 70 peer-reviewed publications in science and medical journals in 2025.
Discover the powerful story of a 92-year-old litigator's late-life emotional awakening through therapy. A journey of rediscovering memory, connection, and joy—proof that it’s never too late to change.
Leaders often assume burnout looks like absenteeism. More often, it looks like presenteeism. People are at their desks. They are in the meetings. But they are operating at a fraction of their capacity. Roadmaps slip, releases stall, and nobody connects it back to how the work was designed.
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What if the voice in your head is less of a witness and more of an interpreter? Two neuroscientists discuss the brain’s drive to explain, narrate, and make everything add up.
Stories do not just entertain us; they may be one of the main ways our brains rehearse experience, assign meaning, and turn scattered moments into something that feels like a self. We are constantly sorting actions, memories and emotion into a version of events that feels coherent enough to live inside. Neuroscientists Michael Gazzaniga, PhD and Dean Buonomano, PhD draw on split-brain research to explain the left hemisphere’s “Interpreter”: the brain’s tendency to create explanations for behavior, even when it does not have the full picture. The instinct to create narratives likely shapes far more than self-understanding. It may underpin identity, belief, and the desire to belong in the world.
As a cognitive scientist and entrepreneur who develops applications of integrative cognitive science, I developed a technique designed to facilitate sleep onset, called the cognitive shuffle, and also apps like mySleepButton and Hookmark. More recently, I have turned to a different question: why don’t we design a meditation for everyday life that is more engaging…
“Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds (ars technica): When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or…
We invite you to prepare for the upcoming 2026 Brain Awareness Week (March 16–22) by learning about our incredible human minds and brains and by putting them to good use via some fun brain teasers, puzzles and illusions for adults and teens alike :-) To warm-up, let’s try this mental rotation: Draw the letter J in your mind.…
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