Adolescent and adult mice use both incremental reinforcement learning and short term memory when learning concurrent stimulus-action associations. by Juliana Chase, Liyu Xia, Lung-Hao Tai, Wan Chen Lin, Anne G E Collins, Linda Wilbrecht

“…Computational modeling has revealed that human research participants use both rapid working memory (WM) and incremental reinforcement learning (RL) (RL+WM) to solve a simple instrumental learning task, relying on WM when the number of stimuli is small and supplementing with RL when the number of stimuli exceeds WM capacity. …”
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Prospective Memory Impairment and Executive Dysfunction in Prefrontal Lobe Damaged Patients: Is There a Causal Relationship? by Giovanni A. Carlesimo, Margherita di Paola, Lucia Fadda, Carlo Caltagirone, Alberto Costa

“…In one patient, PM impairment was associated with poor performance on tests investigating planning, working memory, and mental shifting. The other patient performed in the normal range on all executive tests. …”
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Cognitive Abilities Predict Safety Performance: A Study Examining High-Speed Railway Dispatchers by Shi Lei, Zizheng Guo, Xi Tan, Xi Chen, Chengen Li, Jiaming Zou, Shi Cao, Guo Feng

“…In this study, a total of 118 HSR dispatchers from a branch of China Railway were recruited to complete the tests that examined their cognitive abilities related to the dispatching job, including logical reasoning, visual multiobject tracking, working memory, task switching, and cognitive flexibility. …”
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Early-life cognitively stimulating activities and late-life cognitive function in the St. Louis Baby Tooth Later Life Health Study by Andrea L. Roberts, Xinye Qiu, Kaleigh A. McAlaine, Laura T. Germine, Ran S. Rotem, Marc G. Weisskopf

“…Six tasks measured overall cognitive function, processing speed, visual short-term memory, attention, cognitive control, episodic memory, working memory, perception, vocabulary, and verbal reasoning. …”
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Pre-treatment subjective sleep quality as a predictive biomarker of tDCS effects in preclinical Alzheimer's disease patients: Secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial. by Hanna Lu, Xi Ni, Sandra Sau Man Chan, Calvin Pak Wing Cheng, Waichi Chan, Linda Chiu Wa Lam

“…Over the course of four weeks, patients were randomized to receive either tDCS plus working memory training, or sham tDCS plus working memory training, or tDCS plus controlled cognitive training. …”
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Non-apical plateau potentials and persistent firing induced by metabotropic cholinergic modulation in layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the rat prefrontal cortex. by Nicholas Hagger-Vaughan, Daniel Kolnier, Johan F Storm

“…These L2/3 non-apical plateau potentials may be involved in prefrontal functions, such as access consciousness, working memory, and executive functions such as planning, decision-making, and outcome prediction.…”
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Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease Patients with and without Anxiety by K. A. Ehgoetz Martens, J. Y. Y. Szeto, A. J. Muller, J. M. Hall, M. Gilat, C. C. Walton, S. J. G. Lewis

“…., set-shifting), working memory, language, and memory/new verbal learning. …”
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Cortical Gyrification and Cognitive Decline in the Human Brain With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Weiye Lu, Yuna Chen, Zidong Cao, Zhizhong Sun, Wenbin Qiu, Limin Ge, Xin Tan, Yi Liang, Shijun Qiu

“…In addition, the relationship between fasting blood glucose and working memory was mediated by the LGI in the right temporal pole. …”
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Relationship between Memory Load and Listening Demands in Age-Related Hearing Impairment by Julia Pauquet, Christiane M. Thiel, Christian Mathys, Stephanie Rosemann

“…The current study used a full-sentence working memory task manipulating demands on working memory and listening and studied untreated mild to moderate hard of hearing (n=20) and normal-hearing age-matched participants (n=19) with functional MRI. …”
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Managing ADHD Symptoms in Children Through the Use of Various Technology-Driven Serious Games: A Systematic Review by Aikaterini Doulou, Pantelis Pergantis, Athanasios Drigas, Charalampos Skianis

“…., addressing inattention, impulsivity, working memory, executive functions, emotion regulation), and employ a wide range of technologies, including video games, PC, mobile, web, AR, VR, tangible interfaces, wearables, robots, and BCI/neurofeedback, occasionally even in tandem. …”
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Neuropsychology and Advances in Memory Function by B. Gordon

“…Recent developments in the functional and neural bases of several aspects of memory are described including long term cortical memory storage, the transition from immediate to permanent memory mediated by medial temporal structures, working memory, memory retrieval, and implicit memory. …”
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Cognitive improvement and prefrontal network interactions in individuals with remitted bipolar disorder after transcranial infrared laser stimulation by Douglas W. Barrett, Roger E. Davis, Jennifer E. Siegel-Ramsay, Amy Bichlmeier, Jorge R. C. Almeida, F. Gonzalez-Lima

“…Using an open-label design, 29 individuals with remitted BD received six weekly TILS treatments. Working memory and attention were assessed with trail-making and 2-back tasks sensitive to TILS cognitive effects in individuals with BD. …”
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Feasibility and psychometric quality of smartphone administered cognitive ecological momentary assessments in women with metastatic breast cancer by Ashley M Henneghan, Emily W Paolillo, Kathleen M Van Dyk, Oscar Y Franco-Rocha, Soyeong Bang, Rebecca Tasker, Tara Kaufmann, Darren Haywood, Nicolas H Hart, Raeanne C Moore

“…ICCs for cognitive tests of working memory, executive function, and processing speed were robust (>0.90) and ICC for memory tests acceptable (>0.66). …”
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Investigating the causal pathways among psychopathological variables, cognitive impairment, and real-life functioning in people with schizophrenia by Luigi Giuliani, Francesco Sanmarchi, Armida Mucci, Paola Rucci, Edoardo Caporusso, Paola Bucci, Giulia M. Giordano, Mario Amore, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Rossi, Alessandro Bertolino, Silvana Galderisi, Mario Maj

“…The PAGs model indicated that working memory impairment is the first ancestor of the causal links, influencing all the other neurocognitive domains, social cognition, and functional capacity, which in turn affects everyday life functioning. …”
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Ni bon, ni mauvais. L’élève entre-deux en lecture écriture à l’école primaire by Yolande Peigné

“…The results go beyond the model and lead me to study further way in the path of working memory and skills.…”
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La créativité des concepteurs-rédacteurs : publicité digitale et communication environnementale by Didier Courbet, Marie-Pierre Fourquet-Courbet, Séverine Halimi-Falkowicz

“…For example, advertisers are more reflexive and can describe in detail how they “hear intrapsychic voices and dialogue with them in working memory”. In each population, there are two subcultures with different aesthetic and semiotic practices and standards, but all creatives seem to share three types of social representations and the same overestimation bias: a) of the power of the messages they conceived and b) of the truthfulness of their social representations.…”
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Effect of Simple Reaction Speed Training on Executive Function of the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment by Hong ZHANG, Xiaofei WEI, Congyong LIU, Kaili QIAN, Chun LI, Rang LI, Yuan JIANG

“…Moreover, the serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the blood before and after intervention was detected by using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), respectively.Results:Compared with before intervention, the scores of conversion, working memory, planning, task monitoring, MI, total standard scores, TMT-B and interference in the observation group after intervention for three months were significantly lower, KST, TJT, ZMT, total standard scores and level of serum BDNF of the observation group after intervention were significantly higher (<italic>P</italic>&lt; 0.05); compared with the control group, the scores of conversion, task initiation, working memory, planning, BRI, MI, total standard scores, TMT-B and interferences of the observation group were significantly lower, and RSCT, KST, TJT, ZMT, total standard scores and level of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) of the observation group were significantly high (<italic>P</italic>&lt; 0.05).Conclusion:Simple reaction speed training can improve the executive function, brain nerve function, and effectively delay cognitive decline of elderly with MCI.…”
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Does music counteract mental fatigue? A systematic review. by Cong Ding, Soh Kim Geok, He Sun, Samsilah Roslan, Shudian Cao, Yue Zhao

“…Cognitive performance, particularly in inhibition and working memory tasks impaired by mental fatigue, was countered by both relaxing and exciting music. …”
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Beyond the Hit: The Hidden Costs of Repetitive Head Trauma by Sikandar Khan, Lora Talley

“…Furthermore, deficits in working memory may contribute to decreased performance during play. …”
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Metacognitive function in young adults is impacted by physical activity, diet, and sleep patterns. by G Kyle Gooderham, Todd C Handy

“…Our cognitive capacities like working memory and attention are known to systematically vary over time with our physical activity levels, dietary choices, and sleep patterns. …”
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