Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

Researchers and practitioners emphasize the multifaceted and complex performance demands in soccer. This complexity has driven an increasing integration of scientific analysis into the applied work in ...

Executive functions (EF) are high-level cognitive processes that guide goal-directed behaviors. Core domains of EF comprise cognitive flexibility, inhibition control and working memory 2. These ...

In a rural village on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, cultural developmental psychologist Suzanne Gaskins placed pillowy marshmallows in front of a half-dozen Yucatec Maya children and gave them a simple ...

Executive function skills like planning, working memory, and flexibility are essential for communication, learning, and daily life—but they can be challenging for many students. Speech-language ...