Working Memory

Working Memory

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This emotional intelligence (EQ) course, featuring experts like Daniel Goleman and Amy Cuddy, highlights EQ's vital role in career success, offering strategies to enhance self-awareness, management, and interpersonal skills, ultimately fostering better performance in personal and professional settings.
A wooden box filled with assorted old black-and-white photographs and postcards.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
A photo capturing the memory of a woman standing in front of a body of water.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
A teacher in a classroom with children sitting on the floor, learning a second language.
Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
A black and white photo of a man and a woman to memorize.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
A photo of a brain with false memories.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
A girl in a blue jacket raises her hand in class, demonstrating language proficiency and recall.
Language influences how you visually process the world, which in turn influences your memory of it.
a woman's face is shown with a colorful background.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
a woman's head with smoke coming out of it.
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
cognitive fatigue
Cognitive fatigue results from thinking too hard and long. Neuroscientists now believe they know why this occurs.
The phenomenon of “digital dementia” might not be real after all.
Chatter represents the dark side of your inner voice.
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
digital amnesia
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Is social media changing your memory? Here’s what the science actually says.