Science can now show what frustrated parents and teachers have observed: Today’s children and adolescents spend too much time ...

Youngsters who once built things, played games, and read books are now immersed in one-dimensional, passive tidbits of ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, it is important to understand how students think and learn so as to be able to teach effectively. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, profoundly impacted ...

The average American child spends 3.6 hours staring at a computer, television, tablet, or smartphone daily -- an amount of screen time associated with inferior cognitive development and academic ...

Cognitive skills underlying the ability to plan, switch from task to task and resist tempting distractions usually matures by the time an individual turns 18 years old, a new study says. At what age ...

This study suggests that there may also be cognitive benefits associated with this popular pastime, which are worthy of further investigation." Although a number of studies have investigated the ...

Fluoride has long been the subject of conspiracy theories. In the 1950s, some believed its presence in US tap water was a communist plot to undermine America (famously satirised in the film Dr.