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- Nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too https://aeon.co/essays/nostalgia-doesnt-need-real-memories-an-imagined-past-works-as-well 2 comments
- Do headaches affect working memory? (All aged 18-65 welcome) https://ljmupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bEHz7CteAPO7HbE 7 comments cogsci
- 2 exercises to improve your working memory https://chessfox.com/memory-chess-exercises/ 20 comments chess
- Any programmers with adhd? How do you manage working memory issues? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/5gl2ct/any_programmers_with_adhd_how_do_you_manage/ 78 comments cscareerquestions
- Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory http://m.pnas.org/content/105/19/6829.abstract 6 comments science
- No Evidence of Intelligence Improvement After Working Memory Training. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708717 19 comments science
- Will this memory work in a Dimension 3000? http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-el-ddr-pc-3200-dual-channel-platinum.html 3 comments hardware
- 7 different ways that our brain memory works http://www.onlinemarketingsingapore.com/brainmemory 9 comments science
- Scientists unveil the format of working memory https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00252-5 2 comments science
- How mindfulness can help increase your attention span and working memory https://lifeapps.io/brain/how-to-reclaim-our-dwindling-attention/ 3 comments cogsci
- Study finds that bilingual children have a better “working memory” than monolingual children http://canal.ugr.es/social-economic-and-legal-sciences/item/63121 28 comments linguistics
- Working memory and fluid intelligence: Capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24531497 5 comments cogsci
- Trump's Attack Against Ford Mischaracterizes How Memory Works, Experts Say http://time.com/5414222/christine-blasey-ford-memory-assault/ 21 comments politics
- How 3D XPoint Phase-Change Memory Works https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/How-3D-XPoint-Phase-Change-Memory-Works 25 comments hardware
- Was explaining to a dev today how cached memory works in Linux and stumbled across this gem. Gave me a pretty decent laugh. http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ 56 comments sysadmin
- Memory researchers publish a failure to replicate their own work. http://neuro.plos.org/2014/10/13/this-weeks-most-discussed-plos-neuroscience-article-the-influence-of-partner-specific-memory-associations-on-picture-naming-a-failure-to-replicate/ 825 comments science
- Researchers store working memory in brain slices http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/12/researchers-store-working-memory-in-brain-slices.ars 3 comments science
- Try Thinking and Learning Without Working Memory http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/05/25/try-thinking-and-learning-without-working-memory/ 2 comments science
- Cognitive training can alter brain biochemistry - number of dopamine receptors boosted by working memory training http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090206081507.htm 17 comments cogsci
- Joe Biden Shares Fond Memories of Working With Segregationist Senators in the 1970s: ’We Got Things Done‘ https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-democrat-2020-segregationist-1444714 35 comments politics
- Memory card causing keyboard and mouse to not work when trying to install Raspbian on Model B+. http://raspberrypi.org/downloads 3 comments raspberry_pi
- Amazing free ebook explaining with simple diagrams the physical processes behind how computer processors and memory works. http://www.fastchip.net/howcomputerswork/p1.html 10 comments technology
- Virtual Memory - paging, working set, address translation http://www.i-programmer.info/babbages-bag/205-virtual-memory.html 3 comments programming
- The pupils of our eyes get larger when we are focusing on a task–and the size may give clues about our working memory capabilities, a new study has found https://www.newsweek.com/pupils-eyes-dilate-texas-working-memory-cognitive-psychology-1893288 9 comments science
- Green tea extract enhances parieto-frontal connectivity during working memory processing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24643507/ 12 comments science
- Trying to calibrate my FXOS8700 + FXAS21002 IMU. To calibrate you need to use EEPROM or flash memory, the Nano 33 IoT has flash memory so it should work but I am getting nowhere. My goal is to connect 4 of these sensors to make a very accurate IMU. https://learn.adafruit.com/nxp-precision-9dof-breakout/overview 2 comments arduino
- The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory . Native Japanese speaker found to have better memory. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37654-9 13 comments science
- News museum caves to Israel lobby: "will not honor two cameramen killed while working for Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, reversing a Friday decision to include them on a memorial for fallen journalists" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/newseum-hamas_n_3265931.html?utm_hp_ref=dc&ir=dc&utm_source=feedly 120 comments worldnews
- Mice trained to improve their working memory become more intelligent, suggesting that similar improvements in working memory might help human beings enhance their brain power http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325122001.htm 6 comments science
- Wasabi found to boost brainpower in seniors. Research found wasabi supplements containing 6-MSITC improved episodic and working memory functions in older adults after a 12-week-long administration. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/21/4608 31 comments science
- Researchers in Germany and the U.K. said they were able to plant false memories and then help study volunteers root them out, work that suggests potential remedies to ease the problem of erroneous recollections. https://www.wsj.com/articles/false-memories-can-be-planted-and-then-reduced-researchers-find-11616440361 5 comments science
- I recently worked on a friend's project and rediscovered some parts of C/C++ that I hadn't played with for awhile and thought I'd write up the experience. Great for saving memory, probably a new subject for some people https://devblog.trentwyatt.com/some-respect-for-the-lowly-bitfield/ 21 comments cpp
- First controlled study of LSD microdosing finds few benefits and some downsides. Although previous studies have suggested improvements in cognition and emotional processing, the doses of LSD did not have a significant effect on a test of working memory or cognitive functioning. https://www.psypost.org/2019/06/first-controlled-study-of-lsd-microdosing-finds-few-benefits-and-some-downsides-53874 45 comments science
- Draft of essay I am writing on: "Why working memory based on a multi-model recurrent neural network system could prove that we can dissolve the frame problem by eliminating search" - feedback needed! https://www.scribd.com/doc/306139891/essay-on-frame-problem-rough-draft 4 comments artificial
- Neuroscientists have used light to erase a specific memory in mice, showing how the hippocampus and cortex work together to retrieve memories http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141009163803.htm 4 comments science
- Erasing memory with light. Researchers use optogenetics to erase specific memories in mice and proved a basic theory of how different parts of the brain work together to retrieve episodic memories. http://neurosciencenews.com/optogenetics-erase-memory-learning-1419/ 18 comments science
- Scientists have worked out what prions, the proteins behind 'mad-cow disease' and CJD, do normally in the brain. When they are not misfolded and causing disease, prions play a key role in brain development, learning and memory. http://www.nature.com/news/proteins-behind-mad-cow-disease-also-help-brain-to-develop-1.12428 47 comments science
- Teaching and Human Memory, Part I - most schools are using an out-of-date, no longer supported teaching model. "You can't understand how a memory component works," Miller writes, "until you understand what it is for." [x-post from /r/psychology] http://chronicle.com/article/teachinghuman-memory/129778/ 3 comments science
- Here are some photo's of the "One Nation Working Together" rally at the Lincoln Memorial today. I Didn't know if you guys were aware there was a labor rally today to counter the Beck/Palin rally. http://bluevirginia.us/diary/1868/photos-one-nation-working-together-rally-on-the-mall 4 comments politics
- How Can People Be So Stupid? People Continue To Buy This Herb (Suppose To Boost Your Memory Power) Even Though Scientific Proof Clearly States That It Doesn't Work. http://www.freemedhelp.org/ginkgo.html 3 comments reddit.com