Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is best known for his theories of cognitive development in children. Two of the cognitive processes he explored extensively were assimilation and ...

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Infants who nap a lot have smaller vocabularies and poorer cognitive skills -- according to new research.

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development. Even though humans are closely related to chimps, the slight differences in ...

“Mild cognitive impairment is the stage before dementia where there are more thinking problems than we would expect for your age,” explained Andrew Kiselica, a neuropsychologist at the ...