Several athletes at the Olympics have looked as if they're dancing just before they set off to compete, but they are visualizing.

The problem isn’t only avoidance. Many conversations fail because participants focus on persuasion, treating arguments like battles to be won. Minson says that shifting the goal from winning to ...

Paired work helps reduce cognitive overload because each person can be more focused on their role, but since it requires ...

For example, one of the things about modern English that would most strike a time traveler from the past is the frequency of “I was like …” among younger speakers, as in “And I was like ‘You don’t ...

We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual cortex interprets different sights, helping us identify everything from solid ...

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