You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your ...

Working memory is essential to a variety of cognitive functions, and yet the mechanisms underlying memory formation, retention, and recall—which enable us to perform a task we've done before without ...

Working memory is essential to a variety of cognitive functions, and yet the mechanisms underlying memory formation, retention, and recall - which enable us to perform a task we've done before without ...

This Perspective article expands on a working memory-dependent dual-process model, originally proposed by Zheng et al. 1, to elucidate individual differences in the testing effect. This model posits ...

One of the challenges for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is limitations with their working memory, or their ability to hold on to information long enough to use it.

Put away your phone, picture this, and remember it. The entry to all new learning is like a doorway. Information crosses the threshold ushered by what captures our attention. Our capacities to see, ...

To establish accurate action-outcome associations in the environment, individuals must refrain from assigning value to outcome-irrelevant features. However, studies have largely ignored the role of ...

Wouldn’t we all like to be smarter? No matter how intelligent we actually are, we always know someone who at least appears to be smarter than we are (or so we believe). Whether or not intelligence can ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. “Working memory is the ...

A new study has shown that repetitive practice not only is helpful in improving skills but also leads to profound changes in the brain's memory pathways. A new study led by UCLA Health has shown that ...