Task-switching, a core executive function essential for adapting to changing demands 1,2, exhibits a well-documented age-related decline. While older adults typically perform poorer than young adults ...

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Transitions can be tough. For neurodivergent women, they can feel jarring, overwhelming, and almost impossible to do smoothly. Whether it’s moving from one task to another, wrapping up an activity, or ...

The brain must maintain a stable world model while rapidly adapting to the environment, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. Here, we posit that cortico-cerebellar loops play a key role in ...

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The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time. This allows us ...

Modern work culture has increasingly come to glorify multitasking. We make a habit of answering emails during meetings, checking messages while writing reports, and hopping between tabs dozens of ...

The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping ...