A new meta-analysis found that athletes outperform non-athletes in working memory tasks. The findings contribute to growing evidence that physical activity supports cognitive aging and overall brain ...

It has been proposed that later working-memory decline may help account for age-related declines on other kinds of cognitive tasks. How is working memory measured? Created with Sketch. Individual ...

In our first film, Professor Chris Jarrold introduces the concept of working memory, and why it is important in a classroom setting. Tasks are demonstrated by Dr Debbora Hall, we have used them to ...

This study uses electrophysiological recordings, causal manipulations of activity, and modeling to investigate how the maintenance of a spatial location in working memory affects the representation of ...

Working memory can help us overcome a particular problem or perform a task, like mental arithmetic, using a phone number or following a set of directions. However the amount of information we can ...

The human brain can store salient information, such as numbers, instructions or other details that are important for ...

including our working memory—the aspect of cognition that allows us to juggle small amounts of information at once to perform tasks (working memory shares some overlap but is usually considered ...

The results showed that astronauts responded to tasks assessing processing speed, working memory, and attention slower in space than they did on Earth, but they maintained the same level of accuracy.

So we have people in the MRI machine and we measure their brain activity as they’re performing a number of kinds of tasks, then engage working memory and cognitive control. After that they ...

Another study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease found caffeine can improve working memory performance to some extent.