A growing body of research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the development of key cognitive skills that help ...

In the first year of the COVID-19, there was a significant drop in working memory and executive function in older individuals, which is linked to known dementia risk factors including increased ...

Getting outside regularly helps young children learn how to problem-solve and develop other important skills that support ...

Your working memory plays a crucial role in how you process and retain information daily. It affects everything from ...

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...

Research is increasingly showing that one of the best ways to boost memory, focus and brain health is exercise ...

This month’s executive function skill is working memory. Executive function skills are brain-based skills that help us “get things done” easily—or not—depending on our particular brain. Working memory ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...