Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

New details on how the brain stores info, and why it's limited. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2009 — -- Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Why do we have different ways of remembering things? Matthew Saxton offers a psychologist's perspective on memory. Memory underpins every thought we have and everything we have learned, from how we ...

Research from Northeastern and Brown Universities reveals that while memory can be improved through training and specific brain games, the effectiveness of such training is influenced by individual ...

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