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...

The role of spatial working memory in visual search efficiency

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......contrast, by showing that a nonspatial working memory load did not interfere with search efficiency...search process interfered with a spatial working memory load, but not with a nonspatial working memory load. These results suggest that there is...

Spatial working memory load impairs signal enhancement, but not...

Perception and Psychophysics;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......examined the effect of spatial working memory load on the attentional cuing effect...was uninfluenced by spatial working memory load. In contrast, spatial working...results suggest that spatial working memory load impairs signal enhancement...

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

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

The effect of memory load on cortical activity in the spatial working...

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......that spatial working memory is subserved...influence of memory load upon the spatial working memory circuit. Our...reaction time) as memory load increases. Memory...of excessive memory load. In the past...substrate for working memory, ...

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 ...

Working memory contributions to relative clause attachment processing: A...

Memory & Cognition;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......sentences differ as a function of working memory capacity. Specifically, both English...relative clause increased as their working memory capacity increased. In the present study, readers' working memory capacity was measured, and eye...

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

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......load tasks tended to co-occur. Working memory for digits and visual information...the shared limit is discussed. Working memory, the temporary retention of limited...Lately, the domain specificity of working memory has become a controversial issue...faculty that is an important part ...

Individual capacity differences predict working memory performance and...

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......PFC), a critical region involved in working memory. This pharmacological fMRI study tested...function, and individual differences in working memory capacity. Subjects performed a verbal...bromocriptine treatment depended on subjects' working memory spans, with the greatest ...

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 abilities has been to study working memory performance in children with...disabilities coincide with specific working memory deficits. More explicitly, the...

Training of working memory performance in dyslexics

Psychology Science;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......article focuses on the role of working memory functions for reading and writing. Evidence for a deficit of working memory in dyslexic children is reviewed...shows that a training of special working memory functions leads to a critical...

Influence of working memory on adult age differences in matrix reasoning.

British Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Speculations about the role of working memory in adult age differences in cognition...research on adult age differences in working memory). It has only been in the last several...empirical evidence for the influence of working memory on age differences in cognition has...

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

The Hindustan Times;  February 28, 2008 ;     605 words ......school may just be victims of a poor working memory rather than low intelligence, according...10 percent of them suffer from poor working memory, which seriously impedes their learning...that teachers rarely identify a poor working memory and often describe children with this...

Towards an artificial phonological loop: An assistive device for working...

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......individuals with impairment of the working memory system. The phonological loop, along...short-term memory subsystems that comprise working memory, a cognitive function closely associated...silent speech) rehearsal. Deficits in working memory, specifically in the phonological loop...

The primate working memory networks

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Working memory has long been associated with the...interconnected brain areas involved in working memory. These include the parietal and temporal...the frontal lobe and illustrate that working memory involves parallel, distributed neuronal...