Megan Spencer-Smith
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first heard Mar 2015
last heard Mar 2015
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Working memory difficulties are often observed in behaviour.
So teachers and parents and also adults who have problems with working memory might notice that they're forgetting things in their daily life.
They're finding that when people are talking to them, they can't keep track of that conversation if it's a complex conversation, that type of thing.
That's right.
So working memory problems can be observed in attention in daily life.
That's right.
And for children and adults with a diagnosis of ADHD, they're commonly described as having deficits in what is called visual spatial working memory.
That's this ability to hold visual information and visual spatial information in mind and work with it.
There's also another type of working memory called verbal working memory.
And that information is, for example, me talking to you, trying to remember a phone number that someone might tell you out loud.
That's described as verbal working memory.
That's right.
For example, if they're in a lecture theatre and they're trying to use the information that is presented to them visually, and they're trying to write notes, that sort of task could be quite complex if you have some low working memory or working memory problems.
That's a really good analogy.
Working memory is this cognitive ability to hold information in mind and then work with that information over a short period of time.
For example, trying to solve a mental arithmetic problem.
That's right.
You describe it really well.
There's quite a few programs that have been developed targeting working memory.
So we call them computerized working memory training programs.
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