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 ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

A new study reveals working memory is an orchestra rather than a solo act—with multiple brain regions contributing to help us maintain information It’s been long established that our working memory, ...

Reading a sentence, following a conversation, solving a problem or deciding what to do next: all of these rely on working ...

Close your eyes and picture the face of your best childhood friend. Recall the smell of your grandmother’s kitchen, the exact feeling of your first heartbreak, or the steps to riding a bicycle. Now ...

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...

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 ...