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memory

the part of a COMPUTER that stores information. The two main types of computer memory are RAM (Random Access Memory) and ROM (Read Only Memory). HARD DISKS and FLOPPY DISKS provide additional memory capacity for storing computer programs and data.
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To the researchers' surprise, the results revealed that a night's sleep loss appeared to have no impact on the working memory of men.
Staying up all night harms women's working memory
The prefrontal cortex plays a central role in the maintenance of working memory and the suppression of distractors.
Singapore : NUS researchers unravel new insights into how the brain beats distractions to retain memories
Interventions that strengthen working memory and cognitive processing related to inhibiting impulsive responses need to be developed to help adolescents better navigate drug-related temptations, Khurana asserts.
"Working memory" could curb drug use
Many suggest that working memory can store a (http://memory.
How Short-Term Memory Is Important For Your Brain And Mind
Moreover, there is a paucity of data on the effects of cognitive processing such as working memory capacity on auditory segregation in children with APD.
Relation between working memory capacity and auditory stream segregation in children with auditory processing disorder
It is easy to see why people might think that their memory is declining; however, other processes more closely related to executive functioning, such as short-term and working memory, are often the cause of their symptoms.
Short-term memory: What it indicates about cognitive health: the ability to hold information briefly in your mind normally declines with ave, but severe impairment reauires assessment
The results demonstrated that the mindfulness meditation group reported significant pre-post improvements in working memory capacity, whereas participants in the hatha yoga and waitlist control groups did not.
Mindfulness meditation and working memory capacity in adolescents
To measure the adolescents' working memory, a commonly used WM task known as the 'Sternberg (1966) task' was given to both older and younger groups of adolescent male students to obtain a useful measure of working memory use.
What's working memory got to do with it? A case study on teenagers
Working memory differences could be, in part, due to language differences that exist between the two samples.
How Poverty May Affect Memory
The training addressed both verbal working memory (VWM) and visuospatial working memory (VSWM).
Utilizing computerized cognitive training to improve working memory and encoding: piloting a school-based intervention
Patients with diabetes also exhibited varying frontal brain deficits depending on the difficulty of the working memory tasks they were asked to perform.
fMRI shows type 2 diabetes-induced cognitive deficits
There are a number of other projects related to working memory that I've been looking at, one of which is the role of working memory when it comes to moral decisions.
An interview with Dr. Tracy Alloway about working memory

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