When you try to solve a math problem in your head or remember the things on your grocery list, you’re engaging in a complex neural balancing act — a process that, according to a new study by Brown ...

This study is a qualitative analysis of the work of preservice special education teachers on an activity during which they had to design a game that represented the concept of working memory. The ...

Comparing models of working memory with real-world data, researchers found that information resides not in persistent neural activity, but in the pattern of their connections. Between the time you ...

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 ...

Complex cognition relies on both on-line representations in working memory (WM), said to reside in the focus of attention, and passive off-line representations of related information. Here, we ...

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 ...