To effectively teach working memory strengthening and expansion, you should repeat the skill building throughout the semester ...

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 ...

N-back task performance doesn’t necessarily correlate strongly with performance on other working memory tasks, and they may measure different components of working memory. Psychology Today About ...

The smokers, who were between 22 and 36, were tested on their “working memory,” which is the ability to retain and use information to perform tasks, like solving a math problem. 4 ...

A new brain imaging study shows that when people try to remember multiple things, their brains give more precise attention to ...

The tasks tested working memory, reward, emotion, language, motor skills—such as tapping a finger to map brain control, ...

The researchers found that heavy recent and lifetime cannabis use was associated with lower brain activity during a working memory task (Cohen’s d = 0.28; 95% CI, 0.5 to 0.06), with 63% and 68% ...

Working Memory refers to the ability to retain information for a short period of time while completing cognitive tasks like understanding something, problem-solving, and reasoning. Although the link ...

Avoiding cannabis use before certain cognitive tasks could improve performance Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has ...

The tasks tested working memory, reward, emotion, language, motor skills -- such as tapping a finger to map brain control, relational assessment and theory of mind.

The tasks tested working memory, reward, emotion, language, motor skills—such as tapping a finger to map brain control, relational assessment and theory of mind.