Why does your productivity vary across tasks and timeframes? Your executive function strengths and challenges may explain why ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The results showed that responses to tasks assessing processing speed, working memory, and attention were slower than on Earth, but they were no less accurate. These changes, however, did not ...

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.

While their bodies and brains are affected by radiation, altered gravity and more, a study of 25 astronauts found no evidence ...

Apple is working with Samsung to change how RAM is packaged for the iPhone, with the aim of widening the bandwidth to help in ...

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 ...