News in Brief Dull Minds Are Gullible to Fake News Cognitive ability drives our ability to recalibrate our views after reading a correction. Tom Jacobs
Environment Facial Recognition: Are We Born With It? Do we get our cognitive abilities from our inherited "nature" or from our environment's "nurture?" Daniel Bear
Social Justice When Do We Learn to Rationalize? Children begin to rationalize rather than change their circumstances by as early as age four, a new study suggests. Nathan Collins
Social Justice Green Spaces Linked to Kids’ Cognitive Development New Spanish research finds young brains develop faster if kids have more exposure to the natural world. Tom Jacobs
Education Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician An ambitious five-year study of young orchestral players aims to determine how taking group music lessons impacts them intellectually and emotionally. Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Boost Cognitive Skills, Boost Grades—Right? The link between cognitive ability and academic performance is an intuitive one, but a new study says there's little evidence to support or refute the value of "executive function" curricula. Nathan Collins