Elizabeth Buchen, neuroscientist, science writer and advisor to Lumos Labs, explains why working memory is such a critical cognitive process, and how it works:
In an earlier post, I described the cognitive process of “attention,” which allows the brain to manage the surfeit of the world’s information by selecting only the most relevant information at any [...]
Remembering a list of items or things-to-do is a chore that comes up often in everyday life. A great approach to remember a list is called the link technique. Here’s how it works:
Let’s memorize this grocery list using the link technique:
milk
paper towels
french baguette
ketchup
dishwashing soap
Create a vivid mental image of the first item on the [...]
Did you know that our brains have a practically limitless capacity to store information on a long-term basis?
Despite this amazing ability we have a hard time recalling a 12-item grocery list. Working memory, which is functionally and biologically distinct from long-term memory, is the brain’s ability to keep track of and manipulate information over a [...]
