ADHD brains struggle with working memory load.

Nesting tasks three clicks deep creates cognitive friction.

You forget the steps before you even start.

Flat, visible systems reduce this barrier.

#ADHD #WorkingMemory #Productivity

Struggling with invisible deadlines? Stop relying on mental schedules.

Under stress, the mind drops time-related tasks.

Draw a physical timeline. Make the abstract sequence concrete.

#WorkingMemory #ADHDTips #CognitiveLoad

Understanding verbal irony involves detecting that the speaker’s intended meaning contrasts with the literal meaning. This is challenging for children as the underlying skills required to understand irony may not be fully developed.

In our new study, we investigated how 10-year-olds’ working memory, empathy skills, and gender were related to their processing and comprehension of written irony. Data from two previous eye-tracking experiments with 97 children (46 girls and 51 boys) were analysed.

Results showed that children with stronger empathy skills had higher irony comprehension accuracy and were less likely to reread ironic phrases. Higher working memory was linked to faster processing of irony but did not lead to higher comprehension. Conversely, lower working memory was associated with more accurate irony comprehension. Child gender was not related to irony comprehension.

These results imply that working memory and emotional perspective-taking are important for children’s irony comprehension, underscoring theories that take individual differences into account.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100543

#LanguageDevelopment #irony #EyeMovements #EyeTracking #WorkingMemory #empathy

OK I THINK I JUST HAD A BREAKTHROUGH.
I THINK THE REASON I STRUGGLE SO MUCH IS THAT ALL MY DARN SOFTWARES AND WEBSITES I USE LOG ME OFF SO FUCKING FREQUENTLY THAT EVERY TIME I'M READY TO USE IT I HAVE TO LOG BACK IN AND IT'S ONE MORE FUCKING MICRO-TASK BUT IT BREAKS THE CHAIN OF "I WAS READY TO DO THIS TASK IN THIS SOFTWARE" NEXT-STEP WORKING MEMORY. AND SO I JUST ZONE OUT "WHAT WAS I DOING?!?!" FOR SEVERAL MOMENTS EVERY SINGLE TIME.

🧠 New preprint by Zhong et al. proposes a #synaptic mechanism for #chunking in #WorkingMemory.

Using short-term #plasticity and synaptic augmentation, their model shows how items can be temporarily suppressed and later retrieved as chunks, increasing effective capacity w/o increasing simultaneous activity.

🌍 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109538.1

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #SynapticPlasticity

🧠 New preprint by Shervani-Tabar, Brincat & @ekmiller on emergent #TravelingWaves in #RNN.

By aligning RNN dynamics to an empirically measured #NeuralManifold, they show that task-relevant TW can emerge through #learning, w/o hard-coding wave dynamics or connectivity. The cool thing here is that the waves are not imposed or engineered, but emerge naturally from learning under #BiologicallyPlausible constraints:

🌍 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.08.698281

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #NeuralDynamics #WorkingMemory

🧠 New paper by Deistler et al: #JAXLEY: differentiable #simulation for large-scale training of detailed #biophysical #models of #NeuralDynamics.

They present a #differentiable #GPU accelerated #simulator that trains #morphologically detailed biophysical #neuron models with #GradientDescent. JAXLEY fits intracellular #voltage and #calcium data, scales to 1000s of compartments, trains biophys. #RNNs on #WorkingMemory tasks & even solves #MNIST.

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02895-w

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro