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What is Working Memory? Can it Be Trained?

November 16, 2010 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

brain working memoryYou have prob­a­bly noticed the increas­ing amount of research and media cov­er­age focused on “work­ing mem­o­ry”. What is work­ing mem­o­ry? Why do we care? How can we best enhance it?

Work­ing mem­o­ry is the abil­i­ty to keep infor­ma­tion cur­rent in mind for a short peri­od, while using this infor­ma­tion for the task at hand. Work­ing mem­o­ry is sup­port­ed by regions of the frontal lobes (in blue here) and pari­etal lobes (in yellow).

Let’s take a few con­crete exam­ples to under­stand in which sit­u­a­tions work­ing mem­o­ry is used. [Read more…] about What is Work­ing Mem­o­ry? Can it Be Trained?

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adhd, computerized-working-memory-training, Improving Working Memory, poor-working-memory, train-working-memory, Working-memory, working-memory-intelligence, working-memory-training

Brain Fitness Update: Use It and Improve It

April 30, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Here you are have the bi-month­ly update with our 10 most Pop­u­lar blog posts. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, or to our newslet­ter, at the top of this page, if you want to receive this digest by email).Crossword Puzzles Brain fitness

In this edi­tion of our newslet­ter we bring a few arti­cles and recent news pieces that shed light on what “Use It or Lose It” means, and why we can start going beyond that to say “Use It and Improve It.”

The Neu­ron, The Brain, and Think­ing Smarter

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention, basketball-experiment, Bill-Klemm, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, brain-health-resources, Brain-Training, Cognitive Neuroscience, David-Rabiner, fluid-intelligence, gorilla-experiment, haiku, hbr, John-Medina, mental-performance, new-neurons, Use-It-or-Lose-It, working-memory-intelligence, working-memory-training-adults

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