Short-term memory, also known as working memory, refers to anything that happened within the last 30 seconds — like forgetting what you meant to add to your grocery list after picking up your pen. In ...

On these bases, the selective non-invasive neuromodulation of brain areas involved in these processes might provide an effective way to improve working memory in normal subjects, as well as to provide ...

Depression and loneliness predicted memory decline over time in older adults, while memory decline worsened mood symptoms, according to a new study that highlighted a bidirectional link among ...

There is no difference over time in the spatial working memory of older people who have autistic traits and those who are neurotypical, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The new research ...

At what times? On which days? Information that we cannot see anymore can be stored for seconds in our working memory (Repovs and Baddeley, 2006). Rather than being a simple ‘mental sketchpad’ of past ...

But it’s hard to brace for that siren — the one of memory — when we’ve been living inside a year and a half of other sirens. Sirens that scream warnings, not remembrance. Sirens that jolt ...

explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to collect, store, and recall information from the world around you for future use. It involves ...

And according to some research, occasional sleeplessness can even impair some people’s working memory (information you hold on to only briefly, like the numbers you may add together in your head ...

Working memory is a limited amount of information humans can store while processing other information and executing other tasks. It plays a central role when students attempt to solve math word ...

The study provides insights into how linguistic context modulates the interaction between attention resources and working memory, highlighting the role of structured language input in cognitive ...