Researchers found that when remembering multiple items, the brain prioritizes the more important ones by allocating more ...

A new study reveals how the brain allocates limited working memory by giving priority items more precise representation.

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things.

What parts of the brain are important for working memory? Created with Sketch. The representation of different kinds of information (such as visual or or verbal details) in working memory seems to ...

A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and ...

A new study shows that having a vivid imagination—especially for visual details—may increase a person’s risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after trauma.

and working / long-term visual memory. Vickery seeks to understand both the cognitive and neural bases of varied phenomena using both behavioral experiments and neuroimaging in the form of functional ...

Working memory is the active and robust retention of multiple bits of information over the time-scale of a few seconds. It is distinguished from short-term memory by the involvement of executive ...

This task assesses visual-spatial working memory. On each trial, a computer-generated random matrix of X's and O's is presented on the monitor for 1.5 s. The matrix contains three randomly ...

In addition to this huge visual sensory load, DHH students ... There's only so much information that any of us can hold in working memory at any one time. Miller's Law, or "Seven, plus or minus two," ...