Figure 1: Delay-period activity recorded in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in vivo. Activity may be maintained in a neural network through recurrent excitation. This idea underlies the Hopfield model 27 ...

Researchers find that when working memory gets overburdened, dialogue between three brain regions breaks down. The discovery provides new support for a broader theory about how the brain operates. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certain tasks like writing a phone number or following driving directions require a type a type of short-term memory known as “working memory.” The substrate of working memory consists of persistent ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

One of the challenges for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is limitations with their working memory, or their ability to hold on to information long enough to use it.

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 ...

Put away your phone, picture this, and remember it. The entry to all new learning is like a doorway. Information crosses the threshold ushered by what captures our attention. Our capacities to see, ...