Chemicals in the Brain that Impact Learning and Memory

Based on your assigned topic below, locate an article in the Ashford Library. Summarize the journal article and discuss how this chemical can affect learning and memory. Provide a specific example of how this chemical can hinder or enhance the learning. What activity or strategy can you use in design or facilitation/teaching to increase or decrease this chemical within the brain to support learning? You may find a relevant article listed in the recommended resources. If you need assistance using the library to find an article, please watch this library tutorial, Choosing Articles and Revising Results.

Article Choice Grouping (by the first letter of the last name):

Robbins, T.W., Mehta, M. A., & Sahakian, B.J. (2000). Boosting working memory. Science, 290(5500), 2275-2276, doi:10.1126/science.290.5500.227

• The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford Library. This study shows that enhancing cholinergic activity with the drug physostigmine, which blocks the breakdown of acetylcholine, improves the efficiency of working memory in humans.