Sentence examples for our working memory from inspiring English sources

Such symbolic gestures need to be learned, and then retrieved as needed from our working memory.

Verbal rehearsal of material — the shopping list you recite as you walk the aisles of a supermarket — is part of our working memory system.

Memories can be strengthened with time and practice, practice, practice, but if there's one part of the system that resists improvement, it's our buffers, the size of our working memory on which a few items can be temporarily cached.

That's because most neuroscientists believe that by our late twenties the speed of our mental processing has begun to ebb, and so has our attention prowess and our working memory — i.e., the scratch pad in our minds that allows us to remember information long enough to calculate the tip on the taxi fare or... wait, what was I saying?

How many children have been turned off from committing the hours and hours of committed deliberate practice which makes our working memory fit to deal with such mathematical problems - eventually rendering maths 'easy', or even, dare I use the term, 'natural'natural

The thought of the reward becomes so overwhelming that over-activity in the basic reward pathways in the brain begins to impair our working memory – our ability to consciously hold information and procedures in mind temporarily.

Our limited working memory means we're bad at arithmetic, and so no one does long division anymore.

For example, our internal working memory, with its limited capacity and unreliability, is not duplicated in the various systems of 'exograms' which humans have produced: "unlike the constantly-moving and fading contents of biological working memory, the contents of this externally-driven processor can be frozen in time, reviewed, refined, and reformatted" (Donald 1991, p. 316).

Our spatial working memory task is cognitively demanding, requiring continuous attention throughout the task.

This conclusion is supported by comparing our complex working memory results to the results by Mintzer et al study in which a two-back working memory task was employed [ 14].

In the task setup chosen in our study, working memory load was substantially lowered by the choice of stimuli, which consisted of only 4 easily distinguishable patterns (by comparison, Goudriaan et al. 2005 used 8 different 2-digit numbers).