While working memory was not associated with residential outcome, the remaining three attributes were.
For instance, the DLPFC is active when information in working memory is manipulated (D'Esposito, Postle, Ballard, & Lease, 1999).
While performing the SOPT, the demand on keeping information active in working memory is very high.
Thus, we suggest that central executive component of working memory is impaired during early opioid abstinence while storage is intact.
Load theory argues that working memory is involved in selective attention not only through biasing attention toward information held in memory but also through cognitive control by minimizing irrelevant distraction via active maintenance of stimulus-processing priorities.
For all intents and purposes, working memory is the same as primary or short-term memory, but short-term memory seemed to imply passive storage -- information just sat in short-term memory while it was being rehearsed.
Its working memory is basically not working.
While cognitive impulsivity was present in both groups, working memory was selectively impaired in the alcohol-dependent group.
Spatial working memory was assessed in the Y maze, while recognition memory was tested in the Novel Object Recognition Task (NORT).
Thus, if you repeatedly bring to mind negative feelings and thoughts while a memory is active, then that memory will be increasingly shaded in a negative direction.
On the other hand, if you call up positive emotions and perspectives while an implicit or explicit memory is active, these wholesome influences will slowly be woven into the fabric of that memory.
