Complicated real-time strategy game situations, researchers say, can boost cognitive flexibility -- the ability to allocate the brain's resources under changing circumstances. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Patients who are hospitalized have become more complex over time, according to new research. In an observational cohort study that included some 3.4 million nonelective hospital admissions and about 1 ...

A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regularity appears: many new words show up early, then ...

Your phone buzzes. A notification pops up. Someone texts. Your mind wanders. Suddenly you’ve been “studying” for an hour but ...