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Some Cognitive Skills Are Easier to Train Later
Older adolescents and adults can learn certain thinking skills, including non-verbal reasoning, more effectively than younger people.
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Brain-Training Claims Not Backed by Science, PSPI Report Shows
A scientific review puts the claims behind brain-training games and apps to the test.
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Spelke Awarded Heineken Prize
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
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Sophisticated Communication from 8-Month-Old Babies
Scientific American: New parents love the developmental milestones – the first smile, crab-like crawl, and “ma-ma-ma” are unforgettable. Around their first birthday, babies start pointing, a communicative gesture that is universally, and uniquely, understood by
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Robots for Research
From R2-D2 to Astro Boy to WALL-E, science fiction is riddled with diminutive, scrappy robots and androids that serve as sidekicks, assistants, and even heroes. But in the real world, childlike robots are increasingly at
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Development of Inequity Aversion: Understanding When (and Why) People Give Others the Bigger Piece of the Pie Alex Shaw, Shoham Choshen-Hillel, and Eugene M. Caruso It
