How is it that students with ADHD and gifted students share similar IQ and behavior profiles, yet they have very different learning profiles? The answer was in their working memory profile.

Working memory, our ability to process and remember information, is linked to a range of cognitive activities from reasoning tasks to verbal comprehension. There is also extensive evidence of the ...

How is it that students with ADHD and gifted students share similar IQ and behavior profiles, yet they have very different learning profiles? The answer was in their working memory profile.

Working memory is the retention of a small amount of information in a readily accessible form. It facilitates planning, comprehension, reasoning, and problem solving. I examine the historical roots ...

Memory formation and retention involve multiple processes that help us encode, store, and retrieve information. The hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped structure near the base of your brain, plays a key ...

Elchanan Cohn, Sharon Cohn, James Bradley, Jr. The importance of notetaking techniques and working memory are explored in the learning of economics in a college principles course at the University of ...

To improve students’ learning, faculty must understand the limitations of memory.

Working memory is the part of short-term memory that temporarily stores and manages information required for cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension.

A new study has found a strong correlation between how much your mind wanders and your working memory capacity. Christie Nicholson reports ...

Driving and working memory Working memory, which develops through adolescence into the twenties, is a frontal lobe process associated with complex, moment-to-moment tasks essential to driving.

Slower growth in working memory is linked to teen driving crashes, according to a new study by researchers at by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Children’s Hospital of ...