While reading a book passage, you suddenly realise that you do not understand it. Therefore, you pause, decide to re-read it and then adjust your strategy to read it. This act of structuring or strategising indicates metacognition, which is defined as the awareness and regulation of an individual’s cognitive processes (Flavell, 1979). It includes metacognitive
The group of neurodegenerative disorders that initially affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD). For example a loved one who suddenly begins acting in ways that feel unrecognizable and doing inappropriate acts at inappropriate moments, struggling to act and express to find simple words. It often presents
Imagine your brain as a bustling city, with its roads and highways linking its many regions, neurons in this case. The ‘traffic’ within this city does not move chaotically, instead, it follows specific pathways, finds quick routes, and builds new ones when necessary. Streams of electric activity move through the highways and byways of clusters