ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY DETAILS ABOUT YOUR WORKING MEMORY Brain Flash Card #15 April 23, 2016 WHAT IS YOUR WORKING MEMORY AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? BRAIN SCIENCE FACTS What is the purpose and function of your working memory? The purpose of your working memory is to determine what information from all six of your senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, and proprioception) and your habits (whose activators are stored in your long-term memory) is the most important at the moment in order to protect you from danger, by reducing pain and producing the most comfort and pleasure possible. It is helpful to simplify the most complex three pounds of matter in the universe (your brain) by integrating the idea of your working memory with the overall concept of the global connectivity of your brain's structures and their functions. You can explore how the new brain idea about your working memory relates to the new brain idea about your brain's global connectivity by momentarily focusing your attention on the following circular symbol and the #15 red arrow: See #15 = WORKING MEMORY THIS SYMBOL REPRESENTS A SIMPLIFIED HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY NECESSARY FOR HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS This circular symbol was created to convey a powerful visual image of the previously unimaginable coalescence of the many diverse and interactive physical brain structures that form the wonderful new idea of your self-manifesting holistic brain. The symbol of 14 red arrows pointing toward the circle of human consciousness, depicts a conscious living human brain that is made up of many parts with a sum total of meaning that is greater than all of its separate parts. Each of the 15 brain ideas in the image can converge and merge in your mind to produce the process of your self-directed neuroplasticity or, more simply, your mental force. The awesome purpose of your working memory can be achieved by learning several specific thinking skill-sets that can strengthen your mental force. The mental force exercises include the following: [1] Simplification exercises; [2] Manipulation exercises; and [3] Support exercises. BOOK SOURCE = Working Memory Advantage, 2013 and especially see the appendix section containing the Working Memory Quick Hits Manual on pages 280-291. Printable PDF Form DETAILS ABOUT YOUR WORKING MEMORY (for your own editing and memory consolidation) RECOMMENDATION: Print this PDF version and read it. Underline or highlight with colors the most important new brain ideas to save them in your long-term memory. Then edit this text to personalize it and read your edited version of these ideas in a few hours and in a few days and then a week later to take advantage of the spaced-repetition method of learning. NOTE: See also neurons #2, synapses #8, cerebral cortex #11, prefrontal cortex #12, and limbic system #13. instantly go to: BOOK FINDER LIST OF BOOKS ABOUT WORKING MEMORY #15 or instantly return to: WORKING MEMORY: BRAIN FLASH CARD #15 or instantly return to: ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY INDEX produced by Infinite Interactive Ideas™