Everyday conditional reasoning: A working memory-dependent tradeoff...

Memory & Cognition;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......evidence has revealed that working memory capacity is an important determinant...that participants with low working memory capacity more often use probabilistic...counterexample information. Working memory capacity thus not only relates to...

Working memory in Dutch children with reading- and arithmetic-related LD.

Journal of Learning Disabilities;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......elucidate the relation between working memory capacity and higher order cognitive...reading (RD) have lower working memory capacity than average readers. Specifically...therefore remains whether working memory capacity differs between different...

Event-Related Potential Measures of Visual Working Memory

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Potentials Visual Working Memory ABSTRACT Visual working memory is a limited capacity...items in visual working memory at any point in...works and why our working memory capacity is so limited...maintained in working memory at the neural...currently ...

Under-performing school kids may have poor working memory, not low IQ

The Hindustan Times;  February 28, 2008 ;     605 words ......victims of a poor working memory rather than low...tool to assess memory capacity in the classroom...suffer from poor working memory, which seriously...assess children's memory capacity in the classroom...with poor working memory can go onto ...

An Indispensable Guide That Examines The Function Of Working Memory In...

M2 Presswire;  May 28, 2008 ;     512 words ......Guide That Examines The Function Of Working Memory In Educational Achievement(C)1994-2008...c93115) has announced the addition of Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and...critical information on the role of working memory in learning and achievement, Working...

Unexpected costs of high working memory capacity following directed...

Memory & Cognition;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Greater working memory capacity is usually associated with greater ability...resulted in greater forgetting among higher working memory capacity participants than among lower working memory capacity participants. A candidate explanation called...

Perceptual expertise enhances the resolution but not the number of...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......capacity in visual working memory is restricted...enhances visual working memory. In the present...of "slots" in working memory, or improved resolution...can be held in working memory. These results...perceptual expertise in working memory and support ...

Working memory can store only 3 to 4 things at a time

The Hindustan Times;  April 24, 2008 ;     564 words ......three or four things in their "working memory" or conscious mind at a time. University...of objects in his or her mind. "Working memory is like the number of memory registers...number of registers. Limits in working memory are important because working memory is ...

People with higher working memory make more balanced moral decisions

The Hindustan Times;  June 10, 2008 ;     357 words ......that people with higher working memory can be relied upon when...measuring individuals' working memory capacity, essentially their ability...scenarios, people with high working memory capacity were not only more consistent...ultimately, people with higher working ...

Choking under pressure and working memory capacity: When performance...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......individuals with a high working memory capacity (WMC) "choke under...problems with high working memory demands. This suggests...differences in working memory capacity (WMC), these authors...processing capacity of working memory (Eysenck & Calvo...

Working memory has limited "slots".(Research Roundup)

The Hearing Review;  May 1, 2008 ;     687 words ......Davis shows how our very short-term working memory --memory that allows the brain to stitch...quarter-second, separated by brief gaps. The working memory system smoothes out this jerky sequence...typically last just a few seconds. We use working memory hundreds of thousands of times ...

Test Anxiety and Working Memory.

The Journal of Experimental Education;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......subsystem of working memory. The sample...anxiety and working memory suggests that...to use their working memory capacity (Darke, 1988b...1985). The working memory system has a...less available working memory capacity for task ...

When visual and verbal memories compete: Evidence of cross-domain limits...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......investigators have suggested that visual working memory operates in a manner unaffected by...a shared limitation. With a visual working memory task in which two arrays of color squares...seven-digit sequence. However, visual working memory performance decreased markedly when...

The role of working memory in attentional capture

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......demonstrations that increasing working memory load results in greater distractor...which support the hypothesis that working memory provides goal-directed control...with the frontal lobe, such as working memory, have long been thought to play...evidence for a causal role for ...

An examination of the seductive details effect in terms of working memory...

Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Results indicated that low working memory capacity readers are especially...individuals who differed in working memory capacity as they read the same seductively...those individuals high in working memory capacity. Within the past few decades...