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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Emily Finn on the Unique Patterns of Brain Activity
The Spence Award recipient talks about her research on individual variability in brain activity and behavior.
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How to Recover Your Shrinking Attention Span
… “I think there’s a huge disconnect between what we feel like is happening and what is actually happening,” says Monica Rosenberg, a psychologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. “There is a whole
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A Child’s Environment May Shape How Their Brain Solves Problems
The findings may have implications for the classroom, as well as for broader efforts to reduce socioeconomic disparities in children’s academic outcomes.
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The Attention-Span Panic
… A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many exceptional cognitive
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The Gift of Getting Weirder With Age
… Rebecca Schlegel, a professor of psychology and brain sciences at Texas A&M University who studies the “true self,” told me people can feel that they become more authentic over time. In her research, participants aged
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Songbirds Reveal the Dark Side of Making New Brain Cells as Adults
Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells last
