Working memory influences how you manage emotions in daily life. It serves as your mental workspace, allowing you to hold and ...

Multitasking may hurt your memory and focus more than you realize. How task-switching affects your brain and ways to improve cognitive clarity.

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they receive from the world around ...

Doing crossword puzzles or math games such as sudoku keeps your brain stimulated. (Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Athletes may have more than just physical prowess – new research shows they also have superior working memory. A study from ...

A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, ...

This important study examined orientation representations along the visual hierarchy during perception and working memory. The authors provide results suggesting that during working memory there is a ...

New Delhi: Working memory, which allows one to juggle multiple tasks at the same time, may have its limits, according to a new study published in the journal eLife. A learning process involving ...

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...