In the UK, May 10-16th is mental health awareness week. This is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation and designed to raise the profile of mental health as an urgent and pressing challenge in society ...

Have you ever watched a presentation where the information was so dense and fast-paced that your brain struggled to keep up? Or perhaps you’ve been in a situation where you had to simultaneously ...

This is the first of two essays exploring key theories – cognitive load theory and constructivism – underlying teaching methods used today. Explicit guidance and feedback from teachers is more ...

The brain works like a muscle. Thinking, learning, and practicing a skill literally causes structural adaptations in our brains. For instance, scientists examining musicians’ and non-musicians’ brains ...

Increasing a liar’s cognitive load increases the probability of detecting deception. A truthful person simply conveys the truth, which requires little cognitive processing. Conversely, liars ...

This post is co-authored by Molly Dickens, Ph.D. The English lexicon is always evolving to accommodate our lived reality. In the last decade, we have seen many terms find their way into the mainstream ...