Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. For decades, intelligence has been often reduced to a number — ...

When you see a pattern, it can change your life. Seeing a pattern can even make you smarter. Recognizing a pattern is like looking through a telescope for the first time. As if with new eyes, you see ...

Pattern recognition tasks, such as identifying a new face or finding one’s car in a parking lot, become more difficult as people age. These declines are associated with the weakening of the dentate ...