Do you ever wonder why some people can easily calculate a tip in their head or remember an address someone told them a few minutes earlier to plug into their GPS? The ability to remember small amounts ...

Dementia is a common medical condition in the ageing population, and cognitive intervention is a non-pharmacologic strategy to improve cognitive functions. This meta-analysis evaluated the benefits of ...

Working memory IEP goals aren’t about “memory drills.” They’re about how a student holds information long enough to use it.

Newly acquired skill memory can generalize/transfer to the untrained arm. Such interlimb generalization of a learned skill has been shown to be symmetric in our previous work and can be influenced by ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

A recent npj Digital Medicine study reviews the benefits of cognitive intervention among patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia with regard to memory functions. Study: Computerized ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. “Working memory is the ...