Handwriting engages motor, language, and attention systems, activating the brain more fully than typing. Writing by hand ...

Every evening, millions of people sink into their sofas, phones in hand, scrolling through an endless stream of short videos. A recipe. A joke. A news.

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing how to cook.

I watched a $47 million Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation fail spectacularly last year. The technology was flawless. The security ...

When, in 1998, Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed the “extended mind” concept, which posits that cognitive processes and mental states can extend beyond the boundaries of an individual's brain and ...

A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Everyone experiences periods when time and attention are limited. The most important point is that a instance of disinterest ...

Instructor of Psychology Shelly Stolp has been recognized as Humanities Instructor of the Year for 2026 at Pearl River Community College. Stolp recently presented “The Mind-Body Loop: How Psychology ...

Many people believe they are good at multitasking. Modern life often requires people to switch between several activities, ...

Even with highly extensive training, the human brain is not really capable of performing two tasks simultaneously. Moreover, even the smallest deviations from trained routines can have a significant ...

Cognitive psychology research on the Zeigarnik effect explains why unresolved relationship endings cause compulsive ...