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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Dorsa Amir on How Culture Shapes the Mind
The director of Duke University’s Mind & Culture Lab conducts research that sits at the intersection of culture, development, and cognition.
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Young Minds, Smart Strategies: How Children Decide When to Use External Memory Aids
Podcast: Do young children prefer to rely on their memory, or do they take the easier route and use external aids like lists and reminders? Under the Cortex explores.
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Hitting the Curiosity Sweet Spot Speeds Up Learning
The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? We’re often curious in a particular way: we want
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To Stay Sharp as You Age, Learn New Skills
In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to perform worse in tests of cognitive abilities such as processing speed, the rate at which someone
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on testing deprivation and threat, eye movement in toddlers, cognitive change before old age, flavor sensing in utero, how sounds alter the contents of visual perception, placebo analgesia, and much more.
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The Way We View Growing Older Can Influence How We Age
What does getting older mean to you? Being over the hill or raring to climb the next one? Believe it or not what you think about ageing can make quite a difference not only to
