Pacific Standard: Close your eyes. Focus on your breath. Watch, without judgment, as thoughts and feelings arise in your mind, and gradually dissipate. If those instructions sound familiar to you, you are one of the
The mechanism that seems to underlie the benefits of mindfulness might also affect people’s ability to determine the origin of a given memory.
Like a barrel-aged whiskey or a ripening cheese, some things improve with maturity – including some cognitive abilities, new research shows. While many visual and cognitive abilities seem to peak in early adulthood and decline