Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what ...

There is no difference over time in the spatial working memory of older people who have autistic traits and those who are neurotypical, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The new research, ...

Research links speech hesitations like "um" and "uh" to executive function across adulthood. Your speech patterns reveal ...

Kids get distracted due to undeveloped working memory, not curiosity - explaining how they learn differently from adults.

High-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) targeting hippocampal-cortical brain networks can improve age-related decline in long-term memory, new research shows. Age-related memory loss is ...

Many people with ADHD wonder if they have a "bad" memory. I think “bad” is an unhelpful way to describe memory and “uneven” would be more accurate. Adults, teens and kids with ADHD often struggle with ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers evaluate the effectiveness of repetitive neuromodulation in improving the working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LTM) of ...

Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as people in their 20s, a new study has shown. Older adults who play digital puzzle games have the same memory abilities as ...

Researchers at Ohio State University found that when working memory is overloaded, attention becomes scattered and adults ...