Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the difficulties experienced by a child with autism, according to our recent research. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory ...

To complete tasks that require storing relevant visual details for short periods of time, such as solving a puzzle, reading or comparing different objects, humans leverage their so-called visual ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the key to understanding working memory relies not only on what one is storing in memory, but also why. This is the 'working' part of working memory, which ...

Human working memory is supported by a broadly distributed set of brain networks. Content-specific networks communicate with a domain-general, supramodal network that is recruited regardless of the ...

Consider what your dinner plate looked like last night, including the colour, size and positions of food on the plate. When you try to bring these images to mind, you are trying to retrieve the ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security ...

This month’s executive function skill is working memory. Executive function skills are brain-based skills that help us “get things done” easily—or not—depending on our particular brain. Working memory ...

Working memory IEP goals aren’t about “memory drills.” They’re about how a student holds information long enough to use it.

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...