Klingberg et al. (2005) administered WM training for at least 20 days to 7- to 12-year-old children with ADHD and identified improved performance at Stroop, nonverbal reasoning and nontrained working memory tasks, along with some evidence of reduction on parental (but not teacher) ratings of ADHD symptom severity.
From a cognitive load perspective, using a redundant text along with an audio narration overloads learner's working memory by placing more strain on the visual pathway and not providing any additional cognitive advantage.
Episodic memory and working memory decline with advancing age.
Researchers have correlated working memory capacity with intelligence.
Children aged 7 9 years received either adaptive working memory training, non-adaptive working memory training with low memory loads, or no training.
Taken together, the present findings, along with previously published reports, suggest that temporal considerations must be taken into account when designing mechanism-based therapies to improve working memory function in TBI patients.
Memory, especially working memory, began to fade.
The millennials (along with everyone else) have been shocked by the decade or so of events following 9/11 that make up our working memory about what it means to be a citizen in the US.
But working memory declines naturally with age.
Patients with severe ADC usually experienced the greatest impairments in attention, working memory, and executive functions, along with fine motor and information processing speed [ 8, 9].
Attention is seen as a function of dorsolateral prefrontal conjoined with dorsal parietal cortex (Duncan 2006), whereas working memory may draw upon prefrontal along with inferior temporal visual ("visuospacial scratchpad") or inferior parietal ("articulatory loop") areas (Baddeley 2003).
