Prior research studying the relationship between music training (MT) and more general cognitive faculties, such as visuospatial working memory (VSWM), often fails to include tests of musical memory. This may result in causal pathways MT other variables being misrepresented, potentially explaining certain ambiguous findings literature concerning executive functions. Here we address this problem ...

Children with low working memory typically make poor educational progress, and it has been speculated that difficulties in meeting the heavy working memory demands of the classroom may be a contributory factor. Intensive working memory training has been shown to boost performance on untrained memory tasks in a variety of populations. This first randomized controlled trial with low working memor...

Objective(s): There is controversial evidence about the effect of methamphetamine (METH) on spatial memory. We tested the time- dependent effects of METH on spatial short-term (working) and long-term (reference) memory in METH –sensitized and withdrawn rats in the Morris water maze. Materials and Methods: Rats were sensitized to METH (2 mg/kg, daily/5 days, SC). Rats were trained in water maze ...

objective: this study aimed to investigate the verbal memory and working memory impairment in healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia.  methods: the purpose of this study was to compare cognitive deficits in siblings of the patients with schizophrenia and control group. a total of 35 unaffected siblings of patients with schizophrenia were selected from the relatives of the patients refe...