It's been long established that our working memory, which allows us to temporarily hold and use information, such as remembering a phone number or a shopping list, is largely driven by the brain's ...

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 ...

Over the last few decades, psychologists have developed precise quantitative models of human recall performance in visual working memory (VWM) tasks. However, these models are tailored to a particular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

We’ve all had the unfortunate experience of having to pull food packaging out of the garbage because we almost immediately forgot what temperature to set the oven on. At the same time, if someone ...