Working Memory Is Only as Good as Your Attention

Being sleep deprived definitely decreases your working memory. Same thing if you're eating a crummy diet, or your not eating often enough. All these things will decrease the amount of working memory that you have operating at that time. It's interesting that people with idiate often complain about memory problems. But what's sort of interesting about it is that for folks of edse it's not actually a problem in memory. It's a problem in attention,. Your memory is only as good as your attention.