📖 Reading Comprehension
Working memory is essential in holding previous sentences while new information, meaning integrations and inferences are being processed to make understanding of complicated texts easier.
🎯 Mental Arithmetic
To do math problems in one's head requires working memory as a storage for the intermediate results, a manipulator of the numbers, and a performer of the sequential operations without external aids.
💬 Following Conversations
Working memory keeps track of everything happening in the dialogue; what was said, who said it, the context of the conversation, and your response all the while incoming speech is being processed simultaneously.
🎯 Goal-Directed Behavior
Conducting tasks that require several steps necessitates the use of working memory to keep the goals in mind, monitor progress, resist distractions, and skillfully align actions with intended outcomes.
🧠Problem Solving
The working memory is the one that holds problem limits, assesses possible solutions, mentally changes variables, and tries out possibilities before coming up with the right answers or choices.
🗺️ Navigation & Directions
Route following requires working memory to constantly recall the turn-by-turn directions, update where you are on the map, and merge the visual landmarks with the directional information.
📚 Learning New Information
The process of knowledge acquisition activates working memory for the purposes of linking new concepts to the existing ones, categorizing the information, and encoding the meaningful patterns into long-term memory.