Psychologists have many theories to explain how we remember information. The most influential theory is that memory works as a kind of storage system, or storehouse, for information. According to this theory, there are three types of these storage systems with different functions that hold informat...
Over the last several years, the study of working memory (WM) for simple visual features (e.g., colors, orientations) has been dominated by perspectives that assume items in WM are stored independently of one another. Evidence has revealed, however, syst
Executive functionsKindergartenerChineseReadingWritingThis study investigated the direct and indirect associations of different executive function skills with Chinese word reading and writing. A total of 213 Cantonese-speaking kindergarteners (97 girls, mean age=73.3months) participated in this study. Their...
With nonlinear activation functions for hidden neurons and linear ones at the output layer, \(f\left(.\right)\,\) is a nonlinear function that expresses how the \(p\) previous samples cause the present values (Eq.(1)). This produces a nonlinear MVAR model which information about linear a...
How Does Memory Decline With Age? As we progress through life, it seems that simple things become difficult to recall. The question is does memory decline with age. There have been numerous debates about whether age has any correlation with memory deterioration or if our lapse in the recollecti...
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Explain the brain functions involved in memory. Describe a task/activity that involves all of the lobes of the brain working together. Explain why each lobe of the brain would have been important for the task/activity. How does the realm of mind and consciousne...
Research has shown that cognitive functions are associated with both postural control and fall risk, but specific associations are not established. The aim of this study was to explore how specific components of everyday postural control tasks are associated with both general and specific cognitive ...
These three skills—attention, memory and creativity—have technical names: inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility, respectively. They are the three core executive functions used by the brain to execute complex tasks. The most groundbreaking study about the role of executive functio...