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Working memory

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractThe working memory system maintains the limited information that can be kept in mind at one time. These memories are distinct from the vast amount of information stored in long‐term memory. Here we give a brief summary of findings over the past half‐century in the areas of working memory that we see as particularly important for understanding ...
Timothy J, Ricker   +2 more
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Memory Work

2018
Memory work is a methodology and method first introduced by Frigga Haug and others in Germany and appeared in academic publications in the 1980s. As an approach to data collection, memory work involves writing a memory in the third person in relation to a question or theme.
Lia Bryant, Katerina Bryant
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Dementia and Working Memory

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 1986
This study explored the hypothesis that patients suffering from dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) are particularly impaired in the functioning of the Central Executive component of working memory, and that this will be reflected in the capacity of patients to perform simultaneously two concurrent tasks.
Hans Spinnler   +4 more
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Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: a latent-variable approach.

Journal of experimental psychology. General, 1999
A study was conducted in which 133 participants performed 11 memory tasks (some thought to reflect working memory and some thought to reflect short-term memory), 2 tests of general fluid intelligence, and the Verbal and Quantitative Scholastic Aptitude ...
R. Engle   +3 more
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Working models of working memory

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2014
Working memory is a system that maintains and manipulates information for several seconds during the planning and execution of many cognitive tasks. Traditionally, it was believed that the neuronal underpinning of working memory is stationary persistent firing of selective neuronal populations.
Misha Tsodyks, Omri Barak
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Working Memory and the Hippocampus

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Abstract A number of studies suggest an important role for the hippocampus in tasks involving visuospatial or relational working memory. We test the generality of this proposal across tasks using a battery designed to investigate the various components of working memory, studying the working memory performance of Jon, who shows a ...
Baddeley, A   +2 more
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Anxiety and working memory capacity: A meta-analysis and narrative review.

Psychological bulletin, 2016
Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with task-relevant processes.
Tim P. Moran
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Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review.

Developmental Psychology, 2013
It has been suggested that working memory training programs are effective both as treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other cognitive disorders in children and as a tool to improve cognitive ability and scholastic ...
M. Melby-Lervåg, C. Hulme
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What Is Not Working in Working Memory?

Biological Psychiatry, 2010
p a i f s H R m T w t f n O c p F C c s s a W orking memory has never been so well established as a construct for understanding psychopathology. In fact, it is one of a select few constructs around which new thinking about pathophysiology in mental illness is being organized.
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Working Memory, Thought, and Action

, 2007
1. Introduction and overview 2. Why do we need a phonological loop? 3. The phonological loop: challenges and growing points 4. Visuospatial short-term memory 5. Imagery and the visuospatial sketchpad 6.
A. Baddeley
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