Cognition

A growing number of politicians are talking nonsense with impunity. False information is proliferating. What’s worse, the human brain loves it

Pro athletes can have other conditions that make diagnosis difficult

They're not looking at themselves, but mirrors aren't meaningless to dogs

There is still no definitive study on the risks for permanent cognitive impairment

The classic self-recognition test gets a makeover for dogs, using smell not sight

Experiments show that this quality often emerges by the age of 12 months

Scientists identify 22 genes associated with intelligence

David Baron, author of the new book American Eclipse, talks about how seeing his first total solar eclipse turned him into an eclipse chaser.  

But only in limited ways because our brains are so fundamentally different

Studies of infants at risk for the disorder could someday yield a test for it

There is also a bill aimed at establishing a “commission on presidential capacity”

People who are “open to experience” literally see the world differently