EARL MILLER sees the prefrontal cortex — home to working memory — as a switch operator working the brain’s railroad tracks. Jason Grow In the rehearsal space of the Boston band What She Said, Earl ...

Memory can be broken down into multiple types, including long-term memory, short-term memory, explicit and implicit memory, and working memory. Memory is a process in your brain that enables you to ...

People may misremember events, often within seconds, and reshape memories to fit their expectations, according to a new study that sheds more light on such illusions in short-term memory. Previous ...

Short-term memory capacity is a core component of working memory. There are at least two types of short-term memory store. In the following resources, we will explore verbal short-term memory, and ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory—the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it—coordinate intentional focus and ...

Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience discovered a parallel pathway for forming long-term memories that bypasses short-term memory. Using optogenetics, they blocked short-term ...