Cognition

Top soccer players demonstrate superlative cognitive abilities for strategizing and situational awareness

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction

A new study finds that dementia cases will increase at a much higher rate than expected, with lifetime risk rising to 42 percent after age 55

New work listens in on bird dreams

The brain’s primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever changing world

Children at risk of dyslexia who played Space Invaders Extreme 2 showed improvement at a word-identification task

People whose eyes dilated more performed better on tests of working memory

One of Europe’s most common birds, the Great Tit, shows an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem to be no limits for this species when it comes to inventing new ways of acquiring food from people

By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world

Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles

Extreme heat caused by climate change can exacerbate a variety of neurological ailments, from Alzheimer’s disease to migraines to epilepsy, new research shows

Eurasian Jays use something similar to humans’ episodic memory to remember where they stored their food