Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what ...

A new study is the first to confirm that animals possess multiple 'working memory' systems, or the ability to remember more information across two categories versus a single category. The paper is the ...

Working memory is a form of memory that allows a person to temporarily hold a limited amount of information at the ready for immediate mental use. It is considered essential for learning, ...

Memory is the way your brain takes in and stores information so you can use it later on. Memories define who you are in a lot of ways. They help you recall things like important dates, facts, and even ...

Findings from genetically diverse mice challenge long-held assumptions about how the brain is able to briefly hold onto important information. Working memory: it's how you make a mental shopping list ...

Giovanni Sala receives funding from the University of Liverpool. Fernand Gobet receives funding from the University of Liverpool. He gets royalties from a number of books on expertise and talent. We ...

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

Recent theoretical models propose that working memory is mediated by rapid transitions in 'activity-silent' neural states (for example, short-term synaptic plasticity). According to the dynamic coding ...

A new kind of computer, devised by researchers at Google DeepMind in the U.K., could broaden the abilities of today’s best AI systems by giving them an important new feature—a kind of working memory.