Lately I've been accused of "obsessing" about a pesky financial problem. Not a gigantic problem, but a source of ongoing irritation and minor conflict. At any rate, this financial quandary got into my ...

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and the ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are more of a chaotic to-do list than a helpful study tool? Many of us rely on traditional, linear note-taking methods—jotting down every detail in the hope that ...

I begin by listing four quite striking, possibly counterintuitive findings from research on problem solving. 1. People who show the symptoms of ADHD—notably, a tendency to be easily distracted from ...