Big Data involving thousands and thousands of participants is enabling researchers to track the development of different cognitive skills across the lifespan with increasing accuracy. And the results of these studies bring light to some surprising — and perhaps heartening — findings about the aging brain… More
The Boyd McCandless Award recognizes young scientists who have made distinguished theoretical contributions to developmental psychology, conducted programmatic research of… More
New York Magazine: Children rightly have a reputation for being little knowledge sponges, absorbing all the information that’s around them… More
When someone misspeaks or forgets a word, we use our past experience with language to hear what we expect them to say — research suggests 4- and 5-year-old children show this adaptive ability to the same degree that adults do… More
Independent: A new psychological study has cast doubt both on the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and… More
The Guardian: Older teenagers and young adults are able to improve their fundamental maths skills and reasoning abilities more rapidly… More
