This year, psychological scientists tackled profound and varied questions to help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.

In the ever-evolving landscape of employment and education, assessments have become a vital component of evaluating a person's cognitive abilities. Among the various types of assessments, inductive ...

Children learn to understand language and to speak largely independently of cognitive functions like spatial awareness, working (short-term) memory and perception (interpreting and organizing sensory ...

A new analysis confirms that a widely used non-verbal cognitive assessment measures intelligence consistently across different demographic groups, including Syrian refugees and Turkish students. The ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University, Ariel University and Levinsky College of Education has revealed encouraging findings about cognitive growth and development in adults with ...

As you can see, ability tests are by far the strongest predictors of performance, outperforming assessment centres, job try-out procedures, and even interviews when it comes to predicting job ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

In a recent study published in Nature Human Behavior, researchers assessed the associations between cognitive and non-cognitive (NCS) skills and academic achievement from ages 7 to 16. Study: Genetic ...