In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could ...

Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ...

Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to readily switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands. For example, when our brains are processing one task, ...

If you have a child, a younger sibling, or even a friend with a kid, you’ll know just how quickly they seem to grow up. One minute they’re a little newborn raisin, screaming, sleeping, pooping, and ...

Imagine you are on your daily commute that involves a few miles on the freeway. You see signs of traffic on the entry to the freeway, and you take a different route that still gets you to work on time ...

Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be like decades later, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research ...

Have you ever wondered why your earliest childhood memories begin around age three or four, with everything before that seemingly lost to time? A pioneering study from Yale University has uncovered ...

People born small for gestational age (SGA) have a lower IQ throughout development, however, the differences in IQ to those born appropriate for gestational age (AGA) reduce by adulthood. The effects ...

The fourth epoch marks the beginning of early ageing. This phase is characterized by a decline in brain connectivity, believed to be linked to the degeneration of white matter. Cognitive functions may ...