Capacity is limited—we can keep only a certain amount of information "in mind" at any one time. But researchers debate the nature of this limit. Many suggest that working memory can store a ...

Capacity is limited—we can keep only a certain amount of information “in mind” at any one time. But researchers debate the nature of this limit. Many suggest that working memory can store a ...

Our working memory capacity reflects our ability to focus and control attention and strongly influences our ability to solve problems. Psychological scientists find that while increased working ...

but the performance of this memory system (or “working memory capacity”) is stronger in some individuals than in others—with implications for a person’s ability to learn and function.

Some neuroscientists found that the capacity of the human visual working memory could be increased by electrically stimulating specific regions of the brain. In a paper published in Communications ...

And research suggests a close link between the working memory capacity of a person and their ability to control the information from the environment that they can selectively enhance or ignore.

This suggests our working memory can only hold a limited amount of information at any one time, limiting our capacity to think about multiple things at once. I found that participants with high ...

Sometimes the number of squares fell below their working memory capacity, sometimes above. Electrodes placed deep in the monkeys’ brains recorded the timing and frequency of brain waves produced ...