Adults learn skills faster but forget more easily, while children retain skills better due to the benefits of sleep, ...

The new learning that often is accompanied by a sense of effort – and sometimes frustration – requires accessing the resources in the frontal lobe, which manages thinking and judgment, and the ...

New research finds that even single bouts of intense exercise can improve cognitive performance in young adults, particularly ...

A study reveals that young adults outpace children in learning new motor skills. However, they also lose these skills faster.

Six years after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, 90-year-old Zelik Bocknek (Zel) refuses to slow down — and he believes his active ...

In a study funded in part by the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, healthy adults ... that often involves the use of memory cards, mobile apps, and matching games.” Formal testing is advised ...

Excessive daytime sleepiness could be an early sign of a pre-dementia condition called motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), ...

Contrary to popular belief, children aren’t better at learning new skills than adults. Indeed, young adults seem to learn faster than kids – but also tend to forget more quickly. Here, better sleep ...

The effects of brain training games may be particularly important for older adults since memory and concentration tend to decline with age. A large randomized study sponsored in part by National ...