Cognition

Researchers are painting intricate pictures of individual memories and learning how the brain works in the process

Psychology shows a great date might be more than just a walk in the park.

How blind spots of critical thinking are distorting our collective intuitions of plausibility

People who use echolocating mouth clicks to compensate for low vision increase the number and intensity of clicks when objects are harder to detect. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?

Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills

Touch screens may offer dogs mental stimulation 

Proponents hope the assessment will help ID the earliest stages of dementia

Recordings of songbird duets reveal baby birds learn conversational turn-taking like we do: gradually, and from adults. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Back-and-forth exchanges build the brain’s language center and verbal ability

If you suffer a heart attack in a crowd, you would be less likely to get help than if there were only one or two people around you.