Andrew Huberman· PhD
what we mean by working memor is this ability to hold information in mind uh when it's no longer accessible to us so if you tell me your telephone number and I'm have to put it into my phone you know it's no longer there you just told me but I'll hold it in my working memory until I can punch it into my my phone it doesn't have to be something that comes from the outside world I could hold up uh you know I can pull up my own if I'm filling out a form and I want to pull up my social security number can hold that in mind too until I put it down so um when you think about it it's a very important uh you know ability that we have that we do very flawlessly and what I've learned more about working memory is is the working part of it it's not just this passive holding information on mind but it's being able to do things with the information it's being able to um you know when we when we do a bath problem which we don't do that much now that we have calculators but if you do that in your head you're able to sort of manipulate the information and and do the different parts of the problem or even if you're you know you're trying to find someone in a crowd and you're holding on to some face you're able to hold that face in mind and cross check it and search and and so there's there's operations to working memory it's not just you know it's not just this passive maintenance