Exercise Intervention Associated with Cognitive Improvement in Alzheimer’s Disease by Meng Ying Cui, Yang Lin, Ji Yao Sheng, Xuewen Zhang, Ran Ji Cui

“…However, in most cases, drug therapy is accompanied with clinical delays when older adults have suffered from cognitive decline in episodic memory, working memory, and executive function. On the other hand, accumulating evidence suggests that exercise intervention may ameliorate the progression of cognitive impairment in aging ones while the standard strategy is lacking based on different levels of cognitive decline especially in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD. …”
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Roughness integration across fingers within compared with across the hands by Roberta D. Roberts

“…This integration occurred despite differences in the two tasks such as working memory requirements. Notably, roughness signals were integrated when originating in pairs of digits on the same hand but not when from different hands. …”
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The Relationship between School Connectedness and Academic Engagement: Mediating Role of Mindfulness by Rouhollah Aghasaleh, Saba Rasouli Amlashi, S. Abdolvahab Samavi

“…Additionally, mindfulness, a pivotal term in the field of PP, offers noteworthy advantages such as enhancing working memory and reducing stress levels, consequently fostering academic involvement. …”
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The effects of heritage multilingualism on foreign language learning: a comparison of children with typical language development and developmental language disorder by Elena Tribushinina, Betül Boz

“…The control variables included age, working memory, declarative memory, procedural memory and (for English) amount of extracurricular exposure and length of instruction. …”
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Is the Cloze Procedure Appropriate to Evaluate Health Literacy in Older Individuals? Age Effects in the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults by Raymond L. Ownby, Amarilis Acevedo, Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, Robin J. Jacobs

“…Performance on a working memory task predicted older but not younger individuals’ performance on the age-related items. …”
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Association of Subjective Cognitive Concerns With Performance on Mobile App–Based Cognitive Assessment in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: Observational Study by Caroline O Nester, Alyssa N De Vito, Sarah Prieto, Zachary J Kunicki, Jennifer Strenger, Karra D Harrington, Nelson Roque, Martin J Sliwinski, Laura A Rabin, Louisa I Thompson

“…MethodsParticipants (N=122; Meanageeducation ResultsSCC was not associated with app satisfaction or protocol motivation, but it was significantly associated with lower rates of protocol adherence (ß=−.20, PP ConclusionsSCCs are associated with worse overall memory performance on mobile app assessments, patterns of cognitive inefficiency (variable working memory), and mildly diminished adherence across an 8-day assessment period. …”
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The Importance of Cognitive and Mental Factors on Prediction of Job Performance in Chinese High-Speed Railway Dispatchers by Zizheng Guo, Jiaming Zou, Chuanning He, Xi Tan, Chongshuang Chen, Guo Feng

“…Cognitive abilities involved in train dispatching including working memory and multiobject tracking and potential related mental factors including depression, anxiety, perceived stress, and social support were examined. …”
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Effectiveness of Distant/Remote Blessing Treatment on Cognitive-motor Function: A Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial by Alice Branton, Mahendra Kumar Trivedi, Dahryn Trivedi, Sambhu Mondal, Snehasis Jana

“… # Results In the blessing treatment group, language function score (*p* \<0.01), working memory (*p* \<0.0001), and episodic memory (*p* \<0.0001) scores exhibited statistically significant differences compared to both the naïve control and sham control groups. …”
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Toward an Executive Origin for Acquired Phonological Dyslexia: A Case of Specific Deficit of Context-Sensitive Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Rules by Noémie Auclair-Ouellet, Marion Fossard, Marie-Catherine St-Pierre, Joël Macoir

“…FG also underwent an extensive neuropsychological assessment battery in which he showed impaired performance in tests exploring verbal working memory and executive functions. FG showed no phonological impairment, and his performance was also largely unimpaired for reading words, with no effect of concreteness, grammatical class, morphological complexity, length or nature and complexity of the GPC rules. …”
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Phonological Processing and Word and Non-Word Reading Ability among Farsi-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants, Hearing Aids and Normal Hearing by Elham Masoumi, Asghar Haghjoo, Zahra Soleymani

“…Phonological Awareness (PA) and Phonological Working Memory (PWM) tests were used to assess phonological processing. …”
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Cognitive Load in eCommerce Applications—Measurement and Effects on User Satisfaction by Peter Schmutz, Silvia Heinz, Yolanda Métrailler, Klaus Opwis

“…Cognitive load, that is, working memory demands during problem solving, reasoning, or thinking, may affect users' general satisfaction and performance when completing complex tasks. …”
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Absenteeism and Academic Performance of Pupils in Selected Primary in Buyanja Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Twesigye, Abel

“…It was concluded that children more frequently absent in early kindergarten obtained lower working memory and cognitive flexibility scores, as represented by 31 %. …”
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Transfection of the BDNF Gene in the Surviving Dopamine Neurons in Conjunction with Continuous Administration of Pramipexole Restores Normal Motor Behavior in a Bilateral Rat Model... by Alina Benítez-Castañeda, Verónica Anaya-Martínez, Armando de Jesús Espadas-Alvarez, Ana Luisa Gutierrez-Váldez, Luis Fernando Razgado-Hernández, Patricia Emmanuelle Reyna-Velazquez, Liz Quintero-Macias, Daniel Martínez-Fong, Benjamín Florán-Garduño, Jorge Aceves

“…Overexpression of the BDNF-gene associated with continuous PPX infusion restored motor coordination, balance, normal gait, and working memory. Recovery was also related to the restoration of the average number of dendritic spines of the striatal projection neurons and the number of TH-positive neurons of the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area. …”
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Effectiveness of Badminton Physical Program on Mental Capacities in Healthy Older Adults by Wael Maktouf, Elmoetez Bellah Magtouf, Henrique P Neiva, Oussama Gaied Chortane

“…Older people suffer from reduced mental and cognitive parameters such as executive function, working memory and cognitive flexibility. However, information about how racquet sports can improve mental skills in older adults requires greater analysis and research. …”
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Early Bifrontal Brain Injury: Disturbances in Cognitive Function Development by Christine Bonnier, Aurélie Costet, Ghassan Hmaimess, Corinne Catale, Christelle Maillart, Patricia Marique

“…The last two evaluations showed executive deficits in inhibition, flexibility, and working memory. Those executive abnormalities seemed to be involved in the other impairments. …”
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It’s Hard to Prepare for Task Novelty: Cueing the Novelty of Upcoming Tasks Does Not Facilitate Task Performance by Mengqiao Chai, Ana F. Palenciano, Ravi Mill, Michael W. Cole, Senne Braem

“…Here, we investigated whether explicitly informing about the novelty of an incoming task would help participants prepare for different task configuration processes, such as pre-adjusting working memory gating functions. We hypothesized that if different task configuration processes can be prepared for, a pre-cue informing about the novelty of the upcoming task should lead to better task performance. …”
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Effects of ketamine and propofol on muscarinic plateau potentials in rat neocortical pyramidal cells. by Anne S Fleiner, Daniel Kolnier, Nicholas Hagger-Vaughan, Johan Ræder, Johan F Storm

“…According to leading theories of access consciousness and working memory, L2/3PCs are particularly important for these cognitive functions. …”
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Expanded taxonomies of human memory by Jason R. Finley

“…Refinements and expansions to this taxonomy followed, including the construct of working memory, itself with several components, to replace earlier simpler ideas of short-term memory. …”
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A data-driven cluster analysis to explore cognitive reserve and modifiable risk factors in early phases of cognitive decline by Sara Bernini, Alice Valcarenghi, Elena Ballante, Federico Fassio, Marta Picascia, Elena Cavallini, Matteo Cotta Ramusino, Alfredo Costa, Tomaso Vecchi, Cristina Tassorelli, Sara Bottiroli

“…Specifically, Cluster 1 exhibited advantages in: (1) sociodemographic (education, technological skills, and occupation), (2) cognitive (global cognitive functioning, executive functioning, and working memory), and (3) mental health (mood state and quality of life) characteristics. …”
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Verbal Memory Impairments in Children after Cerebellar Tumor Resection by Matthew P. Kirschen, Mathew S. Davis-Ratner, Marnee W. Milner, S. H. Annabel Chen, Pam Schraedley-Desmond, Paul G. Fisher, John E. Desmond

“…This study was designed to investigate cerebellar lobular contributions to specific cognitive deficits observed after cerebellar tumor resection. Verbal working memory (VWM) tasks were administered to children following surgical resection of cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas and age-matched controls. …”
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