When you're stressed at work, your brain doesn't want complexity; it wants a simple mental lifeline like "cognitive chunking" ...

Working memory is a critical cognitive system that temporarily maintains and manipulates information for complex tasks such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. It functions as an interface ...

A simple handgrip test may reveal more than muscle power in very old adults, offering insight into how physical strength aligns with brain activation in regions that support working memory. Study: The ...

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, ...

Creating procedures around daily classroom activities reduces the mental burden for students, leaving more brain space for ...

Simple daily patterns can impact brain function more than expected. Dr Kunal Sood highlights how sleep, stress, diet and ...

"It just got too hard," says Geena Davis as Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own. Baseball manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), refutes Dottie's explanation for quitting the game when he replies, "It's ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

This month’s executive function skill of focus is working memory. As a reminder, executive function (EF) skills are brain-based skills that help us get things done. For those of us with ADHD, we often ...

The brain works like a muscle. Thinking, learning, and practicing a skill literally causes structural adaptations in our brains. For instance, scientists examining musicians’ and non-musicians’ brains ...

Naturalistic gaze patterns appear to be a simple, noninvasive, and reliable indicator of cognitive decline, new research suggested. Investigators found that gaze patterns during image viewing mirrored ...