“Active breaks” from stimuli like screens and work could help to retrain your brain in as little as 30 minutes, Nye said.

Abstract: The rapid development of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has significantly enhanced the performance of machine reading comprehension (MRC). Nevertheless, the traditional fine-tuning ...

Attention restoration theory (ART) proposes that attention is split into two types: directed attention (voluntary), which has limited capacity and can be depleted by mentally taxing tasks, and ...

Engaging in multiple types of memory training exercises- as opposed to repetitive tasks- helps older adults improve their working memory. The findings offer insights into improving cognition in older ...

URBANA, Ill. — If you’ve been dutifully completing your daily crossword puzzle in hopes of staving off cognitive decline, you might want to rethink your strategy. New research suggests that the path ...

When Ilber Manavbasi practices a challenging piano riff, he doesn’t just focus on hitting the right notes. He pushes himself to rehearse under a variety of different conditions. Manavbasi is a ...

When Ilber Manavbasi attempts a tricky piano riff, he rehearses more than the notes on the page. “I practice in diverse conditions and contexts. I practice hungry, tired, angry and happy. I practice ...

Introduction: The results of working memory (WM) training to improve episodic memory in older people are inconsistent. This inconsistency could be due to the fact that the episodic memory tests used ...

Background: Working memory (WM) capacity declines with advancing age, which impacts the ability to carry out complex cognitive activities in everyday life. Updating and inhibition processes have been ...