cognition

Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to...

There has been speculation for many years that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos”, at a critical transition point between randomness and...

New research shows that it's not just having conversations with children that matter, it's the quality of the content.

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition...

Although our brains deteriorate as we get older, Cambridge researchers are finding that some abilities are preserved through ‘flexible’ use of neural...