Being mindful appears to help prevent the formation of bad habits, but perhaps good ones too. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies suggest that mindfulness can undercut the automatic learning processes ...

A crucial difference in the way learning occurs in the brains of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been identified by scientists. They have examined how the brains of typical and ASD ...

Tennis player Arthur Ashe famously described the backlash of over-thinking with the phrase, “Paralysis by analysis.” Neuroscientists from Georgetown University have found that in certain situations ...

Can you type "The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog” without looking at the keyboard? A new study conducted by a team of cognitive psychologists at Vanderbilt and Kobe universities has ...