New research may help educators and families zero in on exactly how the COVID-19 pandemic caused such an unprecedented academic slump, suggesting that the culprit lies in something basic and crucial: ...

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...

AI tools now sit between many of us and almost every mental task, from drafting emails to planning routes across town. The ...

A new cognitive science major within Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences was approved earlier this year. Now, the major, coordinated by director Prof. Shaun Nichols, cognitive science, and program ...

The report, A New Direction for Students In An AI World, is thorough and ambitious and serves as an important warning to ...

A recent Wall Street Journal opinion essay captured this nation’s rotten national mood. Its title reads, “Seeing Red and Feeling Blue.” This July 4, this country’s 247th anniversary, the nation’s mood ...

The findings come from a major, yearlong “premortem” conducted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education.

Cognitive linguistics focuses on the intersection of language and cognition. This field of study makes it possible to evaluate very disparate topics such as how joint attention is involved in reading ...