ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2026
Motor working memory.
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- Super-additive multi-dimensional self-balancing deficit: implication for flight mishaps and falling.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Cognitive Control and Metacognition: The Effect of Interference, Working-Memory Load, and Shifting on Confidence in Response Correctness and Partial Error.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Hippocampal skill memory expansion drives online performance dynamics during skill learning.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Instrumental-Motor Transfer: The Relative Value of Competing Movement Goals Modulates Implicit Motor Learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Action-Based Encoding Improves Instruction Following in Children and Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Skill Memory Expansion Shapes Micro-Scale Dynamics of Skill Learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- On the limit: Working memory capacity constrains learning of complex visuomotor mappings.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Fundamental Motor Skills in Children With Specific Learning Disorder.Occupational therapy international · 2026Article
- Linking motor working memory to explicit and implicit motor learning.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Greater neural overlap between motor imagery and working memory than with movement execution: A meta-analytic comparison.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Working memory (WM) is crucial for planning, reasoning, and learning, and is one of the most extensively studied topics in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. However, the concept of a WM subsystem for motor content - or 'motor working memory' (MWM) - is generally neglected, even though MWM likely plays an important role in everyday action. Here, we synthesize evidence that the brain both prospectively and retrospectively maintains motor content in WM and propose that MWM carries out multiple key computational functions in motor control and skill learning. A focused research program on MWM is overdue and will deepen our understanding of the links between cognition and action.
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