You’ve seen brain teasers before — maybe the ones with cats hiding in woodpiles or pandas lost in snowstorms. But puzzles ...

PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

Nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD), also called nonverbal learning disability (NLD), is a condition that makes it hard to process visual, spatial, and other types of information. Children with ...

The following is a summary of “Early detection of cognitive impairment in end-stage renal disease patients undergoing ...

A recent setback hasn't stopped Donald Frank from trying to obtain compensation from a billion-dollar fund the NFL ...

When you glance at an optical illusion, your mind does more than merely "look"—it sifts and filters information by way of ...

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...

Trauma alone doesn't cause posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); how we process and imagine it plays a key role, according to ...

A new study shows that having a vivid imagination—especially for visual details—may increase a person’s risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after trauma.

Word games and crossword puzzles specifically target language centers. Drawing or painting recruits visual-spatial processing. Music, especially playing instruments, lights up multiple brain ...

7 design secrets that make small spaces feel larger, from strategic mirror placement to furniture selection tricks that ...

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to ...