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New Study Highlights Simple Hacks to Boost Brainpower and Improve Decision-Making

Have you ever felt like your brain is slow and sluggish, like a well-used computer doing too much on limited RAM?

Our human RAM, or working memory, is a powerful mechanism that handles and processes so much information minute by minute. It helps you retain the meaning of the previous sentence you just read to now combine it with the content of this one. At the same time, it holds on to the information in an email you read earlier, which you have to take action on, as well as your dinner plans later in the day. All this while ignoring the noise from your neighbor’s lawn and the strong smell of your coffee.

In the study, Turning Attention Inside Out: How Working Memory Serves Behavior, researchers Freek van Ede and Anna C. Nobre discuss the latest studies on how working memory functions. They focus on how working memory filters, prioritizes, retains, and processes information already in the mind, what they call ‘internal contents,’ as opposed to external stimuli like sights, smells, and sounds (which our working memory also has to filter and process!)

Working memory isn’t just about storing information and creating memories, these internal contents are used as input for guiding our day-to-day actions and responses to various situations, learning, decision-making, and planning.

For the busy business owner or freelancer juggling so many to-do’s and concerns at any given time, the paper reminds us of a few simple tricks that will help maximize the performance of our human RAM.

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