Failure to pay attention is a problem for both ordinary and intelligent memory, he says. "People blame their memory, but really they never got it in there to begin with," he says.

People With Lots Of Working Memory Are Not Easily Distracted Date: August 8, 2009 Source: University of Oregon Summary: "That blasted siren. I can't focus." That reaction to undesired distraction ...

This is a problem for anyone who wants the technology behind a brain-inspired computer to be widely available, scalable down to the kinds of devices—say, smartphones—that ordinary people ...