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Working Memory

Working memory is a cognitive system with limited capacity that temporarily holds and manipulates information for immediate mental processing. It functions like a brain's "sticky note" that allows you to briefly retain and work with information while performing cognitive tasks

Posts tagged Working Memory

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181Book Summary: Consciousness and the Brain

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33What experiments would demonstrate "upper limits of augmented working memory?"

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18Leave No Context Behind - A Comment

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10Distillation Experiment: Chunk-Knitting

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126One Minute Every Moment

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110System 2 as working-memory augmented System 1 reasoning

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87Subagents, neural Turing machines, thought selection, and blindspots

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20Parenting Technique: Increase Your Child’s Working Memory

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19Two working memories, one on each side of the brain [link]

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17Is there a simple parameter that controls human working memory capacity, which has been set tragically low?

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16Link: Glial cells shown to be involved in working memory

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8Increase Your Child’s Working Memory

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7Large Language Models suffer from Anterograde Amnesia

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6[Link] - No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training

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2[LINK] A proposed update model for working memory: multiple-component framework

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