Do you marvel at your friend's ability to assemble complex furniture and navigate a new city, or do you all-around groan at your own lack of spatial skills? Don't fret! A new study found that you, too ...

Most tests and school curricula are primarily suited to the types of students who excel in mathematics and verbal reasoning. The missing factor in testing and education policy is the measurement, ...

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can skew results. In principle, neuroscience ...

Males gain a slight advantage in mental-rotation performance during the first years of formal schooling, and this advantage slowly grows with age, tripling in size by the end of adolescence. It is ...

Despite ongoing advances in medicine itself, healthcare systems today face a wide array of problems, including staff shortages, poor patient outcomes and high costs of care. Strained hospital ...

As I mentioned in a recent post, "Women’s Advantages in Social Cognition," we anticipate nuance in the pattern of cognitive sex differences and in the supporting brain systems. Broadly speaking, ...