Cognitive flexibility is similar to functional fixedness, which refers to an impaired ability to discover a new use for an object. Cognitive flexibility, however, is usually defined as the ability to ...

Cognitive flexibility is similar to functional fixedness, which refers to an impaired ability to discover a new use for an object. Cognitive flexibility, however, is usually defined as the ability to ...

TODAY’s Matt Lauer meets members of Namibia’s ancient Himba tribe, one of the last cattle-herding nomadic tribes on Earth.Nov. 7, 2011 ...

There was some sleight of hand here, because it was impossible to see how this house could have been assembled in Namibia’s semi-desert. The Himba have to walk miles to a dried-out waterhole, then ...

Sarah Pope drives to work every day. It takes the cognitive neuroscientist 10 minutes to get to her lab at the University of Texas at Austin, and 10 minutes to get back home. She thought it was the ...