(Medical Xpress)—Cognitive scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that humans have separate and distinct cognitive systems with which they can categorize, classify, and conceptualize ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert. Leaders often think they are communicating clearly, however, ...

When acquiring new motor skills, humans typically learn how to use both explicit and implicit strategies. When learning how to play golf, for instance, one may learn implicit motor skills, such as how ...

Serena Williams stands on the baseline of the court, waiting for her opponent to send a wicked-fast ball over the net. The ball, once served, rockets over at 100 mph, tracing a parabolic arc through ...

Inhibitory control underlies one’s ability to maintain goal-directed behavior by inhibiting prepotent responses or ignoring irrelevant information. Recent models suggest that impaired inhibition of ...

Psychologists have lots of evidence that implicit social biases—our automatic, knee-jerk attitudes associated with specific races, sexes and other categories—are widespread, and many assumed they do ...

The role of the hippocampus and adjacent medial temporal lobe structures in memory systems has long been debated. Here we show in humans that these neural structures are important for encoding ...