Cognitive Skill

Cognitive ability drives our ability to recalibrate our views after reading a correction.

• By Tom Jacobs

Do we get our cognitive abilities from our inherited "nature" or from our environment's "nurture?"

• By Daniel Bear

Children begin to rationalize rather than change their circumstances by as early as age four, a new study suggests.

• By Nathan Collins

New Spanish research finds young brains develop faster if kids have more exposure to the natural world.

• By Tom Jacobs

An ambitious five-year study of young orchestral players aims to determine how taking group music lessons impacts them intellectually and emotionally.

• By Tom Jacobs

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.

• By Nathan Collins