How to Use working memory in a Sentence

working memory

noun

• The problem with opening a lot of tabs is that each one uses a chunk of your working memory.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2021
• Aside from time, the other thing that kills working memory is distractions.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023
• The average human only has the working memory to focus on four things at once.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
• His group has tried, without success, to evoke eye movements in one macaque and to impair working memory function in another.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 28 Oct. 2020
• As people get older, their working memory—the ability to hold something in mind, like a phone number—worsens.
  — WIRED, 3 July 2023
• People can hold only a certain number of objects in their awareness, or working memory, at one time.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
• The visual working memory area of the brain, which is lodged in the prefrontal cortex region above the forehead, is definitely involved, Pexman said.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• At this scale, a supercomputer would likely need terabytes of working memory just to store the model.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2019
• Just take a few minutes to do it: The act can actually lower inflammation markers in your body and boost your working memory.
  — Marty Munson, Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• But their lack of a neocortex—the area of the mammalian brain where working memory, planning, and problem solving happen—has long puzzled scientists.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 24 Sep. 2020
• Studies have linked dark chocolate, which is high in antioxidant compounds known as flavanoids, to improvements in working memory and better blood flow to the brain.
  — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2019
• The cubes were limited by the size of their microprocessors, which could store only 32 kilobytes of software code and had only two kilobytes of working memory.
  — Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2012
• Eight bits make a byte; the active working memory of a typical smartphone might employ something like 2 gigabytes, or two times 8 billion bits.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• Conveniently, working memory can be measured at two years of age.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2018
• As a result, the feedback fails and the overloaded working memory system collapses.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 9 June 2018
• People have better working memory if, in their native language, meanings remain, until the end of the sentence, unclear.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• The study also found that the intervention was capable of boosting both working memory and long-term memory.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Just focusing on a shortcoming means keeping things simple for the working memory.
  — Fortune, 30 Dec. 2021
• This aligns with the idea that anxiety, or feelings of tension, can often pose a negative influence on working memory.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
• That timeline could be of use not just to episodic memory in the hippocampus, but to working memory in the prefrontal cortex and conditioning responses in the striatum.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2019
• Dubal’s research team tested the working memory capacity of 18 rhesus macaques, whose ages were about equivalent to 65 in human years.
  — WIRED, 3 July 2023
• The effect was most pronounced for Black and Latinx children, who developed a better working memory if their teacher was also Black or Latinx.
  — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Life Chimps beat humans in these cognitive tests Their working memory outclasses ours.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• These outcomes may stem from the fact that frequent phone interruptions increase our cognitive load, or the amount of information processed by the working memory.
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
• In every case, the frontal cortex, which plays a key role in cognitive control, working memory, attention, and emotional reactions, came alive on the fMRI screen.
  — Rebecca Renner, National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
• Your working memory can only hold a limited number of bits of information at any given time.
  — Amina Youssef-Shalala, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
• Now researchers have found that stimulating the brain with weak electrical currents can restore working memory in older adults.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019
• Speaking is perhaps a baby's most important milestone and is tied to later cognition and working memory.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• Another study found that a walk can not only decrease your anxiety but also boost your working memory performance.
  — David O'Hara, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Deprivation is typified by a delay in the development of the brain’s executive functions—attention, short-term working memory, self-regulation, and planning.
  — Marc D. Hauser, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024