The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

Our goal at the Cognitive Development Center is to understand thinking and how it changes with development. We work with infants, children, and adolescents to explore the development of executive ...

Just like flash cards,” Hodent said. She described the second type of learning — based on cognitive psychology principles — as being “about opening the black box (the mind) and taking into ...

A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia.

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a new revolution in psychology, one in which novel questions have been posed, research methods devised, and sub-fields created. It is an exciting time for ...

research from the University of St Andrew's School of Psychology and Neuroscience has found that children were slower to respond on the cognitive task where an adult was present than when an adult ...

In a study led by Honghuang Lin, Ph.D., professor of medicine and co-director of the Program in Digital Medicine at UMass ...

Contemporary psychology is a vast field that explores everything from cognitive processes to mental health to social behavior ...

Research in applied cognitive and brain sciences takes a use-inspired approach to cognitive neuroscience. The psychology department houses a number of renown experts and labs that focus on cognitive ...

Cognitive neuroscience is the field of study focusing on the neural substrates of mental processes. It is at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, but also overlaps with physiological ...