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Age, Sleep and Mood May Independently Affect Working Memory

A new study shows how three health-related factors — sleep, age, and depressed mood — may each contribute to a different aspect of working memory. Working memory is the part of short-term memory that temporarily stores and manages information necessary for cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. It is critically involved in many higher cognitive functions, including intelligence, creative problem-solving, language, and action-planning and plays a major role in how we process, use, and remember information. As we get older, our working memory tends to weaken and lose precision. In addition, poor sleep quality and depressed mood are linked to a reduced likelihood of remembering a previously experienced event — the "quantitative" aspect of working memory. "Other researchers have already linked each of these factors separately to overall working memory function, but our work looked at how these factors are associated with memory quality and quantity — the first time

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