Episodic and semantic memory retrievals involve the same areas of the brain, according to new work

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in ...

Claude Code's 'Tasks' update lets agents work longer and coordinate across sessions

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server ...
Psychology Today

Don't Shop Right After You Run a Marathon

Executive function is reduced and cognitive effort increased after marathon racing in trained female athletes, outcomes ...
AOL

Waterville Impact Task Force working on strategy to address growing homelessness

WATERVILLE — Interim City Manager Cornell Knight told the City Council on Tuesday that Waterville’s Impact Task Force is continuing its work, bringing together 12 city employees, business owners and ...
Psychology Today

Trauma's Negative Impact on Working Memory

During my dissertation research on combat veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS), I realized that when discussing traumatic events that lead to PTS, the victim often has a hard time describing the ...
BMJ

Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with cognitive function in late adulthood: baseline findings from the IGNITE study

Objectives To evaluate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cognition in a large sample of older adults, and to examine clinical and demographic factors that might moderate ...
Science Daily

Study shows addressing working memory can help students with math difficulty improve word problem-solving skills

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...