A new report shares tips for how parents can aid in their children’s cognitive development. “Early childhood is a crucial period for cognitive development, characterized by rapid brain growth and the ...

Innovation is in our DNA: our department has been at the center of helping create new scientific initiatives in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neural-nets, the role of behavior and ...

Early caregiver-child bonds shape emotional development & future relationships. Attachment styles—secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized—impact relationship dynamics. Attachment theory informs ...

Play, therapy in and of itself, bolsters the pillars of emotional intelligence, yet scant attention is paid to it by ...

A study published in Pediatrics has shown that exercise doesn’t just benefit physical health—it can also boost intelligence in children and adolescents.

However, cognitive theories of knowledge representation and educational practice, in school and in the workplace, have not been sufficiently responsive to questions about these relationships. This ...

Mindblindness is considered the absence of theory of mind. The term originated as a way to describe the delays in theory of mind development ... understood as a cognitive state where an individual ...

The Psychology Department offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science. The field of cognitive science has grown out of increasingly active interaction among psychology, linguistics, ...

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as being curious. They are identifying how the brain homes in on novelty, copes ...