In modern society, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior have become common issues globally. This trend is also growing ...

Going to school helps children learn how to read and solve math problems, but it also appears to upgrade the fundamental ...

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...

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 ...

In modern society, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior have become common issues globally. This trend is also growing ...

Executive function (EF) plays a foundational role in development. A brain-based model of EF development is probed for the experiences that strengthen EF in the dimensional change card sort task in ...

At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function - a set of ...

Previous research findings indicate that young children from East Asia outperform their counterparts from Europe and North America on executive function (EF) tasks. However, very few cross-national ...

Oveporexton, a novel first-in-class OX2R-selective agonist, shows promise for improving memory, attention, and executive function in individuals with narcolepsy type 1.