_____ A few weeks ago I led a Stanford alumni session on how to enhance our brain fitness in the new and rapidly changing AI era. We discussed the need to maintain if not expand our Working Memory—the capacity to hold and manipulate in real-time multiple units of information—which is crucial for academic and work…
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Christina Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. When researching my previous interview with Torkel Klingberg on working memory and academic performance I came across her fascinating study Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital, recently published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Dear Christina, your experiment tests…
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The inspired and brave new book by cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman, Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential, could well have been titled How to Rise Above The Coddling of the American Mind, as it offers readers a practical set of insights and tools to promote individual empowerment…
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For the students in the intervention group of the recently published Berger et al. study, a brief computerized working memory intervention seems to have been able to divert the usual schooling “train” onto a different and better line: transfer effects measured at the three-year follow-up indicate a significant improvement in academic performance and track assignment!…
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Although ADHD was originally considered to be a disorder of childhood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD struggle with symptoms into adulthood and the estimated prevalence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%. As with children and teens, medication treatment is…
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Torkel Klingberg is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, focused on the development and plasticity of working memory. He has won numerous scientific prizes and is a member of the Nobel Assembly and the scientific committee for the OECD “Future of Education and Skills 2030”. Thanks to a “Happy…
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___ As I was working on the drafts of my latest book, my own brain was very active, to say the least. Seriously! How was I ever going to write an introduction to the brain, the most complex organ in the human body, that you, my reader, would want to read, and that you would understand?…
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(In honor of Brain Awareness Week we are going to publish updated versions of some of our most popular articles. Enjoy this one on a fascinating topic ‑working memory) Imagine dialing a phone number by having to look up each digit one at a time in the phone book. Normally, you look up the number…
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UK’s pricing watchdog rejects Alzheimer treatments for the second time (Pharmaceutical Technology): The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued further draft guidance reaffirming its decision not to recommend the Alzheimer’s treatments Kisunla (donanemab) and Leqembi (lecanemab) for use on the National Health Service (NHS) in England. This is the second…
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