Not so long ago, conventional wisdom among neuroscientists held that the human brain was doomed to deteriorate with the passage of time, and there wasn’t much anyone could do about it. Instead, a raft of recent studies, aided by brain-imaging technology, all...
We use the term “cognitive skills” so often that we sometimes forget that not everyone knows what they are. So I thought it might be a good time to provide a refresher. Cognitive Skills are mental processing skills. They allow us to take in, process,...