Tracy Packiam Alloway researches working memory at the University of North Florida and has developed the world's first standardised working memory tests for educators. Her latest book is an edited ...

Working memory is one of the most important areas of our memory system and vital if we're to successfully navigate through our world. It can be thought of as the ability to hold and use a limited ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

Humans may have achieved a great deal as a species, but there's a part of our brain that can only track four items at one time. This is according to a new US study that has discovered that our working ...

This month’s executive function skill of focus is working memory. As a reminder, executive function (EF) skills are brain-based skills that help us get things done. For those of us with ADHD, we often ...

A child picks up a crayon and begins to sketch a scene from a story, not knowing that this simple act is strengthening the neural pathways responsible for memory. New research shows that children who ...

Why do we have different ways of remembering things? Matthew Saxton offers a psychologist's perspective on memory. Memory underpins every thought we have and everything we have learned, from how we ...