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unusual facts about working memory



Adrian Owen

His post-doctoral research on working memory with Michael Petrides, (PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and others) was instrumental in refuting the then prevailing view of lateral frontal-lobe organisation advanced by Patricia Goldman-Rakic and others, and is still widely cited in that context.

Sluggish cognitive tempo

Adele Diamond has postulated that the core cognitive deficit of those with ADHD-PI (ADD) and possibly SCT, is working memory, or, as she coined in her recent paper on the subject, "childhood-onset dysexecutive syndrome".


see also

Memory mapping

Virtual memory, technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory, while in fact it is physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage

Mental chronometry

Demetriou and colleagues, using various methods of measuring speed of processing, showed that it is closely associated with changes in working memory and thought (Demetriou, Mouyi, & Spanoudis, 2009).