A Buzzword
Working memory is the current “neuro’s” buzzword. Whether you are a neurologist, a neuro-psychologist, a neuro-scientist, a cognitive neuro-scientist, a gerontologist or whatever, working memory is likely to be upfront. That’s good news for people in general, as working memory capacity impinges on all our daily lives, particularly in the digital age! So the more we know about it the better it will be.
At this point in time I feel that generally my memory works not too badly: I can do the regular stuff like driving, cooking, talking about anything and everything (with occasional “senior” moments), progressively learning stuff that I am interested in (with moderate retention) etc. I am at the stage of realising that I have trouble remembering three things: names, books I have just read and I forget what the other one is….
At least I can enjoy reading books several times as if they were new to me!
But my working memory is weak (at least as demonstrated by the BFP exercises). I knew this was likely to happen, so it was merely a confirmation. 
The BFP mentions working memory specifically in relation to several of the exercises. I need to know why my retention is so poor, so from among many current publications I have a new book about “information overload” which deals with working memory; so I thought I would attempt to look at working memory more closely in later posts.
As it is close to Christmas, I am making a large batch of shortbread. One lot dispatched to Darwin….steamy and monsoon wet, and the other to Antarctica, cold and icy.
