Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

It’s been long established that our working memory, which allows us to temporarily hold and use information, such as remembering a phone number or a shopping list, is largely driven by the brain’s ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, June 4, 2024 – People tend to underutilize their visual working memory (VWM) rather than maxing out its capabilities according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University researchers.

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...

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 ...

Immediate reasoning and behavior depend on a cognitive system of limited capacity and duration, technically called the working memory. Studies have revealed several regions of the brain that process ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 34 (August 25, 2020), pp. 20959-20968 (10 pages) Research into human working memory limits has been ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Case Study: "My son David is 10 and he is very bright, but his main problem is his difficulty in writing things down. He says the problem is finding the words, especially the first word. He takes ...