As AI-driven workflows accelerate, employees are losing the uninterrupted cognitive space required, and burnout comes more ...

Researchers use network analysis to study whether it can reveal the subtle changes associated with subjective cognitive decline that cannot otherwise be detected through standard test analyses. By ...

When OpenAI released "study mode" in July 2025, the company touted ChatGPT's educational benefits. "When ChatGPT is prompted to teach or tutor, it can significantly improve academic performance," the ...

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

This post is a review of What’s On Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life. By Allison Daminger. Princeton University Press. 256 pp. $29.95. In 2018, a comic entitled “You Should Have Asked” ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Other studies have painted a grimmer picture, suggesting that AI may impair ...