Empathy is a foundational therapeutic tool. So is attensity, a revitalized way to define attention. From behaviorists to bed-rotting, a short history of this lost term of art.

Cognition holds because difficulty demands patience. What happens when AI no longer requires us to sustain engagement and ...

Study Highlights the Roles , of Cognition and Well-Being , in Childhood Development. A new study suggests that well-being and ...

We report that variations in maternal care in the rat promote hippocampal synaptogenesis and spatial learning and memory through systems known to mediate experience-dependent neural development. Thus, ...

The human brain continues to develop for some time after birth, providing an opportunity for experience to influence neural development. In the first few years after birth, both brain volume and ...

Mrs. Johnson was never glad to see me. Never. Not once. She seemed to shrink visibly as I made my way through the door of our one room schoolhouse where grades one through eight learned together. You ...

Adolescence—beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s—is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, ...

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: Human development results from the complex interplay between genetic determinants (nature) and environmental factors (nurture).