Sentences with phrase «while working memory»

For example, episodic memory, which relates to the ability to learn complex tasks declines relatively in life, while working memory, which refers to sort term recall and use of information remains relatively intact until later in age.

Free recall is the ability to remember items from a list, while working memory is a type of short - term memory that involves immediate conscious experiences.

Not exact matches

While some psychotic symptoms can be reasonably well treated with medication, patients often still have debilitating problems with memory and cognitive function, meaning they struggle to get back to work or stay in education.

Sleepy brains have to work harder while short - term and long - term memory is worse.»

Ultimately, what really captures his attention is the Ford Work Solutions, the integrated in - dash computer system (4 GB memory with USB and SD ports, plus wireless keyboard and optional Bluetooth - enabled printer) that provides access to a cellular broadband connection when the engine is on (no worries — you can't use the computer while you're driving).

One study showed 20 minutes of yoga could significantly improve brain functioning, another that a quick nap would seriously boost memory, while a third suggested that just shy of an hour of work followed by around a 15 - minute pause was the ideal work pattern.

The summer in our cottage by an inland lake in the North woods, where she painted, or worked, or later, lay prostrated by illness, but uncomplaining, while I wrote a substantial portion of the volume, is a precious memory time will not dim.

But we are commanded to «work out our salvation» which seems to me to be an ongoing issue — not something settled once and for all in a five - minute altar call while the organist quietly plays «Just as I am» from memory.

Thumma and Davis see megachurches and evangelicalism reaching people with the gospel, while Ellingson sees the same success working to erode communities of memory.

Smoked Paprika Powder Paprika adds smokiness to the rice, an idea that stemmed from Uh's memories of eating pintxos in San Sebastián, Spain while he was working at Quique Dacosta.

In her work to support Children's Hospital of Alabama and Ronald McDonald House she not only keeps John - Dylan's memory alive, Sam hopes to pay forward some of the comfort and kindness her family experienced while he received treatment.

The three top inches of soft memory foam offer cloudlike comfort to even heavier dreamers, while the comfort foam below works to distribute weight very evenly and makes for a smooth transition to the dense, base foam layers underneath.

While short - term memory scores have risen in line with the Flynn effect, working memory ability appears to have declined (Intelligence, doi.org/ccvg).

Working memory is known to decline with age, while short - term memory is usually preserved.

Brain stimulation or «make yourself smarter» technologies, while not new, have been shown to improve working memory and sharpen «physical movement, visual perception, memory and reaction time,» he said.

In addition, while our data suggest that sleep loss impairs working memory in a sex - dependent manner, this does not mean that the sex - differences we observed can be generalised to other mental or physical measures of how we are affected by sleep loss,» says Frida Rångtell, PhD student at the Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study.

In a typical test procedure for evaluating working memory, cognitive aging researcher Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia asked people to perform arithmetic computations while also trying to remember the last digit in each problem.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

«Our results show that while patients have relatively small deficits in working memory, the activity of the cortical networks that support such a function are predictive of their performance,» says author Vicente Camacho, M.D., and a Masters student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

«The most profound differences were those in working memory, which, ironically, is the skill they need to depend on the most while learning new material,» says Jacobsen.

Their work could lead to the development of new tools to help Tononi untangle what happens in the brain during sleep and dreaming, while Van Veen hopes to apply the study's new methods to understand how the brain uses networks to encode short - term memory.

However, Participants with PD and OH were far more susceptible to posture - related impairment on several tests, including those that measured math skills, the ability to produce words easily, keeping information in mind while working on it, paying sufficient attention so that later memory is efficient and searching for items quickly and accurately.

In a further step, Matthias Fastenrath studied the brain activity of 700 healthy participants via functional imaging while they were were solving working memory tasks.

Case No. 18 states that a study in which a healthy volunteer undergoes MRI brain imaging while performing a working memory test is now a clinical trial because the effect being evaluated — brain function — is a health - related outcome.

However, boys showed no correlation between working memory and performance, while girls did.

The older gamers showed gains of about 100 milliseconds in the speed of their response to a test of working memory — the ability to hold something in the mind briefly and then recall it — while there were no improvements in the control groups (who either didn't play the game or weren't forced to do the driving and sign recognition tasks simultaneously).

Short - term effects of cannabis are transient impairments in motor function and working memory, planning, and decision - making, while possible long - term health effects of heavy cannabis use include physical and psychological dependence, permanent reductions in cognitive performance, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and some cancers (WHO).

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

The researchers experimentally manipulated estrogen levels over several months in healthy women with both versions of the gene while monitoring their brain activity as they performed a working memory task.

The goal of this work is to characterize the role of dendrites in learning and memory processes so as to formulate a unifying theory regarding their contribution in memory formation across brain regions and abstraction levels.This will be achieved via the development of computational models that start at the single cell level and expand to the microcircuit and the network level, while varying in their degree of biophysical detail.

The first scan measured subjects» overall brain activity while they performed working memory tasks.

VS neurons are tuned to high - level concepts, are sensitive to attention, and their activity forms attractors through persistent activity over several seconds while stimuli are held in working memory.

What's more, the researchers also reported that over a six - month period, participants in the aerobic exercise group improved in tests that measure executive function — a set of thinking processes that include working memory, reasoning, and problem solving — while the stretching group showed no change.

One study from the University of California, Irvine, found that a brief workout can improve memory in older men and women (50 to 85 years old) due to the enhanced release of the hormone norepinephrine, which is an important chemical messenger in the brain, while another study from the Georgia Institute of Technology has proven that working out regularly for as little as 20 minutes can boost the long - term memory by around 10 %.

While you're asleep, your body works to repair tissues (including those involved in muscle growth and healing injuries), regulate hormone levels, and form new pathways in your brain for learning and memory.

So, while I may no longer be working at my local newspaper or in my twenties anymore, I'll always be fond of those memories and my first introduction to the marvelous world of coffee.

But while they may work short - term, sleeping pills come with a slew of health risks, including daytime drowsiness, memory problems, and sleepwalking.

Working from memory, while insulin is necessary to draw the GLUT4 glucose transporter to the cell membrane and thus enhance uptake of glucose in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, this is not true in the brain and several other tissues.

CocoaMind from Life Extension is the perfect way to support focus, attention, and working memory while also satisfying your taste - buds.

Your body works hard to repair muscle and other tissues, consolidate memory, release growth appetite and hormones, and other tasks while you sleep.

While experts aren't entirely clear how it works, many believe our sense of smell communicates with parts of the brain that store emotions and memories, which influence health, says Covington.

And this habit, they say, is actually changing the way the brain works: While we may think of memory as something that happens inside our heads, it is increasingly happening with the help of outside devices.

While working on a film set in 1987, a billboard prop collapsed and one of the beams struck her on the head, knocking her unconscious and causing long - term damage to her neck, shoulders, and memory.

A spaceship crew awaken from stasis with no memory of their mission or their identities, but once they reach their destination, a mining colony, they begin to look for answers while working together to survive in this adaptation of the graphic novel series of the same name.

The film is dedicated to his memory, as you might expect, and while this might not rate alongside his more prestigious work, it does represent storytelling of a high order, with acting to match.

One could be forgiven for thinking the title is an oh - so - hipster calling card that has little to do with anything, but its importance does become apparent, and while the film tackles the subject of personal morality and ethics, it works more as a vehicle for twinkling nostalgia memories of youth.

This is mainly because working memory handles processing of content while learning and it gets overloaded easily.

While Sprenger doesn't promote rote memorization, she does note that much of the work being done with working memory involves simple rehearsals, or «training» working memory.

Similarly, a limited working memory capacity - the «workbench of the mind,» where complex thought occurs - reduces one's reasoning ability, while problem solving is profoundly influenced by long - term memory, and so on.

Students activate their working memory as they figure out the meaning of new words they encounter while reading, and as they decide which mathematical functions they will need to apply to a problem that their teacher has just jotted on the whiteboard.