Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

— Mira Bartok

“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then,…

— Mira Bartok

“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Moderate, transient stress (i.e., the good, stimulatory stress) promotes hippocampal LTP, while prolonged stress disrupts it and promotes LTD—one reason why cognition tanks at…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.”

— Elkhonon Goldberg

“Modern tests of working memory require the individual to switch repeatedly between two demanding tasks, retaining the results of one operation while performing the…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called “working memory” that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any…

— Mark Williams

“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper rather than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“A related but more complex aspect of working memory gives us the ability to draw on past learning or experience and apply it to…

— Richard Guare

“Sometimes the working memory impairments of ADHD allow a momentary emotion to become too strong; the person is flooded with one emotion and unable…

— Thomas E. Brown

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and…

— Joaquin Fuster

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

“To perform the Add-3 task, you must hold several digits in your working memory at the same time, associating each with a particular operation:…

— Daniel Kahneman

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

— Amishi Jha

“The first is working memory, or what we usually call “short-term memory”—the category of memory that includes anything we are actively thinking about right…

— David DiSalvo