My colleague Sarah Sparks has written a fascinating article about research that shows just what is going on inside a child’s head when that child is doing tasks such as cutting out shapes or coloring ...

Grade inflation, which is ubiquitous in many high schools and colleges, robs students of the environment they need to master critical thinking skills.

A parent’s nightmare just got worse. A new study from Columbia University suggests that children who have surgery before age 3 may be at increased risk for language and abstract reasoning problems at ...

When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Scientists have found mounting brain evidence that helps explain how humans have excelled ...

A team of Apple researchers has released a paper scrutinising the mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), suggesting that while these models can exhibit abstract reasoning ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of employment and education, assessments have become a vital component of evaluating a person's cognitive abilities. Among the various types of assessments, inductive ...