Every day, people must decide what to spend their time on, weighing the costs and benefits of their effort. But the question of how 5- to 7-year-old children decide what’s worth their energy might ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

The executive function skill (EF skill) I am focusing in this post is task initiation, which is the ability to get started on various tasks (Mutti-Driscoll, 2024). As a reminder, EF skills are ...

The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time. This allows us ...

Does your child “give up” on a challenging task too easily? How do we raise our children to be persistent and persevere through difficult tasks in order to succeed? A January 2021 article published in ...