A meta-analysis conducted by Binder, Rohling and Larrabee (1997) established a relationship
between mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and small reductions in cognitive functioning in …

Executive functions (EF) and intelligence are of critical importance to success in many
everyday tasks. Working memory, or updating, which is one latent variable identified in …

Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European
farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age 1. To understand this, here we …

The evidence for long-term cognitive impairments associated with chronic use of cannabis
has been inconclusive. We report the results of a brain event-related potential (ERP) study of …

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050)
was a far-flung transformation in world history 1, 2. Here we sequenced the genomes …

Executive functions are cognitive processes that are associated with goal-directed behaviour.
Although these functions are commonly thought to be related yet separable in young adults…

The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (…

Background Cognitive control refers to the ability to selectively attend and respond to task-relevant
events while resisting interference from distracting stimuli or prepotent automatic …

The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can provide
key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host life …

Conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses presents a challenge to future food
production and ecosystem services in US and Canada. Expansions of housing, transportation, …