Working memory is a mental scratchpad with severely limited capacity for holding information (such as a grocery list or access code), and everything the brain does costs energy in the form of ATP expenditure.
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“Working memory is like the mental scratchpad where we hold whatever we're focused on at the moment, whether it's remembering a short grocery list or trying to remember, an access code, for an app and, it, it's limited in what it can do. How much you can hold everything that we do, costs us in terms of energy expenditure.”
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