It's easy to fall into the all-or-nothing mindset regarding exercise: "If I can't make it to the gym this week, I'll just ...

A study of middle-aged adults finds that walking the dog or doing household chores is enough activity to save your brain ...

It has been proposed that later working-memory decline may help account for age-related declines on other kinds of cognitive tasks. How is working memory measured? Created with Sketch. Individual ...

Moreover, some working memory tasks like spatial delayed-response tasks might simply rely on a pre-existing synaptic structure forming topographically organized memory fields in the PFC ...

So we have people in the MRI machine and we measure their brain activity as they’re performing a number of kinds of tasks, then engage working memory and cognitive control. After that they ...

Physical activity is known for its long-term benefits for brain health, including reducing the risk of cognitive decline and ...

Regular physical activity is known to improve brain health and lower the risk of dementia over time. But a new study from ...

They also saw faster responses in all cognitive tests with no loss in accuracy and faster and more accurate responses in tasks including tests of working memory, abstraction, fear and anger ...