News tagged with working memory
In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number
Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural.
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Psychologist shows why we 'choke' under pressure -- and how to avoid it
(PhysOrg.com) -- A star golfer misses a critical putt; a brilliant student fails to ace a test; a savvy salesperson blows a key presentation. Each of these people has suffered the same bump in mental processing: ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Magnesium supplement helps boost brainpower
Neuroscientists at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing show that increasing brain magnesium with a new compound enhanced learning abilities, working memory, and short- and long-term memory in rats. The ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Phantom images stored in flexible network throughout brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain research over the past 30 years has shown that if a part of the brain controlling movement or sensation or language is lost because of a stroke or injury, other parts of the brain can ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Cognitive training can alter the biochemistry of the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown for the first time that the active training of the working memory brings about visible changes in the number of dopamine receptors ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Of mice and memory: 'Working memory' of mice can be improved
Mice trained to improve their working memory become more intelligent, suggesting that similar improvements in working memory might help human beings enhance their brain power, according to research published ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Kids with ADHD need to fidget, study says
If you've got a kid with ADHD, you've probably spent countless hours pleading with him to sit still. Well, stop it.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 26, 2009 |
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Culture wires the brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective
Where you grow up can have a big impact on the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and even how your brain works. In a report in a special section on Culture and Psychology in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a jour ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Neuroscientists map intelligence in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have conducted the most comprehensive brain mapping to date of the cognitive abilities measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Practice doesn't make perfect, but it comes fairly close
We are not all blessed with the brains, beauty, luck, and capital that we associate with highly successful business people or entrepreneurs. Although most new business ventures fail, a few prosper and grow rapidly. A new ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Beep, beep, oops, what was I doing? (w/ Video)
"That blasted siren. I can't focus." That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person's low working-memory capacity, according to a new study.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Study shows how memory is disrupted in those with disease linked to learning disabilities
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if your brain lost its working memory -- the ability to hold and manipulate information in your mind's eye. That's the plight faced by millions of people with neurofibromatosis type ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 16, 2010 |
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Stanford researcher explores whether language is the only way to represent numbers
The Mental Calculation World Cup is a brutal contest, and one that threatens to fry the neurons of the unprepared. Over the course of a competition, contestants might be asked to add a string of 10 different 10-digit numbers, ...
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Building Fit Minds Under Stress: Neuroscientists Examine the Protective Effects of Mindfulness Training
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Pennsylvania-led study in which training was provided to a high-stress U.S. military group preparing for deployment to Iraq has demonstrated a positive link between mindfulness training, or ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Working memory
Working memory is a theoretical construct within cognitive psychology as to the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory. Many theories exist both as to the theoretical structure of working memory as well as to the role of specific parts of the brain involved in working memory. Most research identifies that the frontal cortex, parietal cortex, anterior cingulate, and parts of the basal ganglia are crucial for its functioning. The neural basis of working memory mostly comes from lesion experiments in animals and functional imaging upon humans.
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