This Perspective article expands on a working memory-dependent dual-process model, originally proposed by Zheng et al. 1, to elucidate individual differences in the testing effect. This model posits ...

Working memory is essential to a variety of cognitive functions, and yet the mechanisms underlying memory formation, retention, and recall—which enable us to perform a task we've done before without ...

Working memory is essential to a variety of cognitive functions, and yet the mechanisms underlying memory formation, retention, and recall - which enable us to perform a task we've done before without ...

Working memory IEP goals aren’t about “memory drills.” They’re about how a student holds information long enough to use it.

Put away your phone, picture this, and remember it. The entry to all new learning is like a doorway. Information crosses the threshold ushered by what captures our attention. Our capacities to see, ...

Wouldn’t we all like to be smarter? No matter how intelligent we actually are, we always know someone who at least appears to be smarter than we are (or so we believe). Whether or not intelligence can ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively. Happily, ...

A new study has shown that repetitive practice not only is helpful in improving skills but also leads to profound changes in the brain's memory pathways. A new study led by UCLA Health has shown that ...