When it comes to verbal memory skills women have the edge over men, yet in Alzheimer's disease (AD) this "cognitive reserve" may not confer an advantage but rather mask early signs of the disease, new ...

(CNN) -- For the first time, scientists have identified the genetic differences associated with left-handedness, a trait found in 10% of the human population. What's more, those genetic variants ...

While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study finds that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills ...

A new study has challenged previous research which indicated that ‘night owls’ have superior verbal intelligence. The team behind the findings has described them as ‘surprising’ after looking more ...