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If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

Results from the Warfighter Brain Fitness Study, which was published in the journal Military Medicine, show that the ...

Cognitive fatigue manifests when the brain is overworked or stressed from prolonged periods of mental effort. This form of fatigue can impair attention, decision making, reaction times, and emotional ...

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

The evidence is increasingly clear: gaming has the potential to improve certain aspects of brain function, particularly when ...

Executive function is reduced and cognitive effort increased after marathon racing in trained female athletes, outcomes ...

Gaming science reveals how video games boost cognitive skills like memory and attention, with NIH studies showing gamers perform like people years younger. Pixabay, Vika_Glitter Video games have long ...