Your content may be costing you sales. Learn how cognitive load drains working memory—and how to reduce friction so more readers understand, trust and buy.

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A simple handgrip test may reveal more than muscle power in very old adults, offering insight into how ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

Modern life asks you to do more, do it faster, be more productive, and keep up with everything around you. At work or at home, there are always new things to do and changes to keep up with. Maybe you ...

Explore 5 classic eye-tracking experiments for memory studies. These foundational paradigms reveal how gaze behavior reflects encoding, retrieval, working ...

New research tracking brain activity in real time has confirmed what many office workers have long suspected: sitting in an open-plan environment forces the brain to burn extra cognitive fuel just to ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

Identify sources of unnecessary cognitive load and apply strategies to focus on meaningful analysis and exploration.

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.