The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave consciousness.
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According to cognitive psychology there are three distinct types of memory. Each plays a different role in effective study.
The study found people bounce back from their mental sluggishness soon after emerging from isolation.
Students say they have a hard time studying and cognitive science proves they’re not trying to dodge work: there’s a link between negative emotions and difficulties in concentrating.
If you want to boost your energy and mood and feel more alert, get moving instead of getting coffee.
Chimpanzees, like humans, possess working memory abilities. They’re able to perform similar to seven-year-old children.
The ability of multilingual children to learn and advance academically from pre-primary has little to do with their English proficiency.
New studies investigate whether music, chess, video games or puzzles can make us smarter.
A new study suggested that menstruating does not impact a woman’s mental performance. But the relationship between hormones and the brain isn’t that simple.
Both psychologists and neuroscientists are interested in how working memory holds on to items over brief intervals – and are investigating from different angles.
Working memory and intelligence tend to go hand in hand.
It’s all down to what’s called your working memory.
The effects of long-term tobacco smoking on our mental faculties such as memory and concentration are only now becoming known.
Jason Bourne’s overall pattern of forgetting and then retrieving memories is a better plot device than representation of real-world memory loss and recovery.
Practice is important for talent. But, is that all it takes to become an expert?
From the look of it, the millennials appear to be very comfortable with technology. But are they as immune to the effects of digital distraction as some might assume – especially in the classroom?
Concerns that people with dyslexia won’t be able to memorise poetry are missing the point.
Older adults are less able to ignore distractions as they try to remember things.
Whether a child’s family is well-off or struggling for money has long been linked with their success at school. The gap between parents’ income and their children’s achievement is evident in kindergarten…
Before we had mobile phones, people had to use their own memory to store long phone numbers (or write them down). But getting those numbers into long-term memory could be a real pain. People had to write…
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