Myth: Brain Training Will Make You Smarter
Researching this persuasive myth allows students to use scientific reasoning tools to evaluate popular claims regarding intelligence. More
Researching this persuasive myth allows students to use scientific reasoning tools to evaluate popular claims regarding intelligence. More
What does it mean to age successfully? An interdisciplinary group of scientists share some findings from physiological and psychological perspectives. More
APS Fellow Lynn Nadel talks with APS President Suparna Rajaram about his journey to an illustrious career studying the brain and memory. More
APS William James Fellow Elizabeth S. Spelke of Harvard University, a leading psychological scientist and specialist on the cognitive development of infants, recently received the C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The $200,000 prize will support Spelke’s cognitive research. More
Legendary APS William James Fellow Jerome Bruner passed away at the age of 100 on June 5, 2016. His groundbreaking contributions to cognitive, educational, and perceptual psychology have had transformative effects on the field as a whole, as well as effects on fields such as anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics. Often More
The New York Times: DO you remember the controversy two years ago, when the Yale law professors Amy Chua (author of “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”) and Jed Rubenfeld published “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America”? We sure More