When humans tackle many everyday tasks, ranging from driving to completing household chores and work assignments, they rely ...

A new study explores the working memory capacity debate, the doorway effect, and how the prefrontal cortex links memory to consciousness.

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Avoiding cannabis use before certain cognitive tasks could improve performance Getty Heavy cannabis use may negatively impact one's working memory, according to a new study from researchers in ...

Sharpen your memory, improve your focus, and keep your brain healthy with these science-backed strategies from experts who study the brain and cognition.

Spending too much time at work may not just exhaust your body, it could also be affecting your brain. A new study has found that working over 52 hours a week may lead to changes in the brain's ...

On multiple occasions, readers of my learning and memory blog posts asked me what they could do to improve their working memory. This is an important and very practical question. Working memory ...

Brianna Tobritzhofer is a nationally credentialed Registered Dietitian and experienced health writer with over a decade of leadership in nutrition program development, policy compliance, and public ...