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 ...

New research from the UW and the Toyota Research Institute explores how drivers trade off between cognitive tasks, driving ...

Inside firms, AI is changing tasks—and, with those tasks, how they hire and organize. Controlled studies show large gains on ...

Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

Trusting artificial intelligence over the real thing seems, per a new study, to be atrophying folks’ critical thinking skills. “Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of ...

Blinking serves a crucial physiological function, by clearing debris from our eyes and keeping them lubricated. But now, scientists have found it may also have a cognitive role. In 1945, Arthur Hall ...

A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be completed, examined the effects of ...

Other studies have painted a grimmer picture, suggesting that AI may impair performance or cognitive abilities such as critical thinking skills. One paper showed that the more a student used ChatGPT ...