Key points Children's performance in math is associated with their broader cognitive abilities. Efforts to transfer training of domain-general skills to improve specific math outcomes show mixed ...

Psychological research shows that intolerance of uncertainty limits reasoning ability. Highly intelligent individuals tend to ...

Neuropsychological assessment, or cognitive testing, is the gold standard tool for measuring cognitive functions (or the “software” of the brain) such as memory, language, attention, visuospatial ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

On the Wednesday, October 22, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: The 2025 Nation’s Report Card reveals that US students are still falling behind in reading and math. Martin West, Academic Dean at ...