Great Apes Engage in Playful Teasing Like Humans, Revealing Surprising Similarities in Cognitive Skills

Medicine & Technology Feb 16, 2024

New research reveals that great apes engage in playful teasing, possibly laying the foundation for human humor with poking, tickling, and stealing behaviors. Read the article for more details.

Kids Lacking Sleep Have Poorer Cognitive Skills and Vocabularies; Study Suggests These Children Need More Sleep To Improve Abilities

Aug 06, 2023

Napping for adults and children has been found to help attentiveness, and memory, and promote better emotional regulation.

Connecting Misophonia and Intelligence: Is Noise Intolerance an Indicator of Advance Brain Processing?

Jul 07, 2023

Psychological studies on people with misophonia suggests that their sound hypersensitivity could be connected to their cognitive ability. Learn more about it in this article.

Babies with Longer Breastfeeding Duration Found to Have Better Cognitive Skills, New Study Suggests

May 26, 2022

Researchers found that breastfed babies have better cognition than those who were not breastfed. Read and learn more about the link between the two here.

Air Pollution Can Affect Your Cognitive Skills Up to 60 Years Later

Feb 04, 2021

Researchers found a small but notable decline in cognitive skills when someone was exposed to levels of smog or air pollution up to the age of 11.

3 Reasons Why Laughter is Good for Your Mind and Body

Jan 07, 2021

Laughter is said to draw people together and activate both healthy physical and emotional changes in our bodies.

Month-Old Ravens Could Rival Great Apes in Numerical Skills and Other Tasks

Dec 11, 2020

Researchers from Germany found that four-month-old ravens can learn numerical skills, understand cues, and perform other tasks that can take a lifetime for great apes to learn.