"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...

Recently, I've become preoccupied with the website If This, Then That (ifttt.com, supposedly pronounced "ifttt"), which is either a remarkably handy new tool or a portent of the end of humanity. The ...

Firearms training often treats “skills” and “habits” as separate, but neuroscience shows that once a skill becomes automatic, it functions as a habit and becomes the default behavior under stress.

Learning something new is all about memory and how you use it. At first, your prefrontal cortex, which stores your working (or short-term) memory, is really busy figuring out how it’s done. That’s the ...

The lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been segregated into subregions based on several functional characterizations 1,2,3,4. Specifically, the ‘cascade model’, focusing on the temporal context, ...

Experts are dubbing ‘automaticity’ the key to keeping up an exercise routine — here’s what that means. Now, researchers have found what makes these people so motivated for movement – and they’ve ...

"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...