And although the science is still fairly new, some studies have found heavy marijuana use in adolescence can permanently disrupt key networks in the developing brain associated with memory and processing information.
Four tests, that is, the Digit Span backward and Visual Memory Span backward, Category Fluency tests, and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (Cronbach's alpha = 0.82), could be included into one domain, that is, working memory (for processing information), one of the EF.
Thinking skills like memory, planning activities or processing information decline almost in parallel with the ability to walk fluidly, these studies show.
Four cognitive skills were assessed: speed of processing information, working memory capacity, cognitive flexibility and perceptual reasoning.
In the 1980s, my colleagues and I proposed microtubules acted like computers, specifically as Boolean switching matrices, or molecular automata, processing information, encoding memory, oscillating coherently and regulating neuronal functions from within.
The battery sampled a wide range of cognitive domains including verbal and non-verbal memory, executive function, visual spatial processing, information processing, motor speed and problem solving ability.
Therefore, our results suggest that the relative disconnection of network hubs by traumatic axonal injury is an important mechanism by which long-term cognitive impairment in the domains of information processing, memory and information processing speed are produced.
With a sustained pause from processing information -- from memories, plans, thoughts about self -- brain waves slow down into synchronous alpha.
Findings are discussed in the light of evidence from research on memory and information processing.
There's also data to suggest that children who encounter high-levels of stress have smaller areas of the prefrontal cortex that deal with memory and information processing.
