Working memory is a system of memory that stores a few pieces of information for a few seconds. However, unlike short-term memory, working memory is capable of operating and manipulating stored information.

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Badigian, Sonya · Digital Commons - URI (University of Rhode Island) · 2014

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Working Memory

Alan Baddeley · Science · 1992

The term working memory refers to a brain system that provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning. This definition has evolved from the concept of a unitary short-term memory system. Working memory has been found to require the simultaneous storage and processing of information. It can be divided into the following three subcomponents: (i) the central executive, which is assumed to be an attentional-controlling system, is important in skills such as chess playing and is particularly susceptible to the effects of Alzheimer's disease; and two slave systems, namely (ii) the visuospatial sketch pad, which manipulates visual images and (iii) the phonological loop, which stores and rehearses speech-based information and is necessary for the acquisition of both native and second-language vocabulary.

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Alan Baddeley · Current Biology · 2010

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Working Memory

Cognitive Psychology · 2014

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Roger D. Traub, Andreas Draguhn · 2024

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DigiNole (Florida State University) · 2024

Gustatory sensations in rats and many mammals, including humans, begin with taste compounds stimulating taste receptor cells through G-protein coupled receptors or ion channels. These receptor cells are clustered in structures called taste buds, which are distributed in selective regions of the tongue and palate, each innervated by specific branches of cranial nerves VII, IX, and X that carry taste information to the brain (Spector and Travers, 2021; Travers and Spector, 2021). The gustatory signals are transmitted to the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract (rNST), where neurons project to the gustatory zone of the parabrachial nucleus (Spector and Travers, 2021; Travers and Spector, 2021). This nucleus sends output via two pathways: one to the ventral forebrain structures involved with reward and homeostasis, and the other to the gustatory thalamus, specifically the parvicellular portion of the ventroposteromedial nucleus. The gustatory thalamus neurons then send their axons to the insular cortex, which can process multimodal information from different sensory systems; rodents are able to recognize some taste compounds after just one lick (Halpern, B. P. and D. N. Tapper, 1971; Graham, D. M., et al. 2014).

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Geng Haiyan · 2024

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Working memory

Yadin Dudai · 2002

Abstract ‘Working memory’ is one of the most important and exciting concepts in modern neuroscience, and rightly so. It refers to a cognitive faculty that is essential for mentation and complex behaviour. This faculty subserves much of our ability to interact with the world in a flexible and intelligent manner, and is essential for thought, planning, and language. For example, reading these lines and combining them into a meaningful message, requires working memory. It is doubtful whether without working memory there would have been a Homer, a Shakespeare, a Mozart, or a Newton, and an audience to appreciate them. A mind without working memory is thus expected to be a rather dull place.

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Carmelo P. Cubillas · 2022

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