Two things contribute to air pollution that can cause an air quality alert: 1  Ground-Level Ozone â High-levels of ground-level ozone are frequently the cause of air quality alerts. Ground-level ozone is created by pollutants such as car exhaust and industrial fumes mixing with oxygen.
Accordingly, working memory has come to be viewed as a flexible system that both maintains current information while supporting the simultaneous execution of higher cognitive functions. âHigher cognitive functionsâ (such as reasoning, comprehension, and learning) are the hallmark of contemporary intelligence test batteries, and form common colloquial descriptions of âintelligenceâ.
Different areas of the brain are involved in memory depending on the type of memory. 1  Short-term memory, also called working memory, occurs in the prefrontal cortex. 2  Long-term memory is processed in the hippocampus of the temporal lobe and is activated when you want to memorize something for a longer time.