{
  "id": 1982106,
  "title": "Mental Operations on Long-term Memory do not Require a Sustained Increase in Working Memory Engagement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/mental-operations-on-long-term-memory-do-not-require-a-sustained",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744869v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Working memory (WM) is often assumed to play a stronger role in mental operations than in pure storage. However, much of the evidence comes from tasks using novel stimuli requiring active maintenance. Everyday cognition, in contrast, often involves operating on information retrieved from long-term memory (LTM), which may not always require sustained WM storage. Moreover, prior evidence for…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "bioRxiv",
        "title": "Working memory limitations and dopamine modulation in probabilistic reasoning",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/working-memory-limitations-and-dopamine-modulation-in-probabilistic",
        "published": "2026-08-18T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}