Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what ...

Kids get distracted due to undeveloped working memory, not curiosity - explaining how they learn differently from adults.

Overloading adults' working memory causes them to behave like children, scatter attention, and "over explore," even while learning.

The agentic AI revolution—or age of reasoning—demands memory architectures match persistent, contextual collaboration.

Having a sharp memory isn’t just about genetics — it’s about how you care for your brain every day. Whether you’re a student ...

Working memory is a mental storage system that keeps task-relevant information accessible for a brief span of time, and it is strikingly limited. Its limits differ substantially across people but are ...

A new study by researchers at Coventry University has found a high-intensity gym workout appears to increase your ability to ...

Working memory involves the short-term maintenance of information relevant to current goals. Neuroimaging studies show that working memory is mediated by frontal and posterior cortical regions ...

As a psychologist, I have spent over a decade investigating how working memory is crucial to learning. Throughout this journey, I have had the privilege of working closely with educators and parents, ...

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 ...

Amina Youssef-Shalala does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...