Investigating working memory

Have you ever heard anyone brag about what a good memory they have? Probably not often, and there"s a reason for that.
"Our brains do an enormous amount of processing, in fact they work like very effective computers," said Dawn Blasko, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie. "So effective that we only notice the few things we forget. We never think about the vast amount of material that we do, in fact, remember."