Catch yourself daydreaming while washing the dishes again? If this happens often you
probably have a pretty capable working memory, new research suggests.
洗碗的时分发现自己又在做白日梦了?新的研究表明，如果你经常做白日梦，那么你的工作记忆力
可能会很好。
This mind wandering, it seems, actually gives your working memory a workout. Working
memory is the mental work space that allows the brain to juggle multiple thoughts
simultaneously. The more working memory a person has, the more daydreaming they can do
without forgetting the task at hand.
走神实际上会锻炼你的工作记忆力。工作记忆是大脑的工作空间， 能让大脑同时在多种想法间跳跃
。人的工作记忆容量越大 ，那在不影响工作的情况下做的白日梦就越多。
"Our results suggest that the sorts of planning that people do quite often in daily
life — when they’re on the bus, when they’re cycling to work, when they’re in the
shower — are probably supported by working memory," study researcher Jonathan Smallwood,
of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, said in a statement.
"Their brains are trying to allocate resources to the most pressing problems."
我们的研究结果表明，人们在日常生活中，在公交车上，骑自行车上班时，淋浴时等时分，经常
做的那类计划很有可能都是由工作记忆来支持的， 马克斯·普朗克人类认知和脑科学研究所的研究人
员乔纳森·斯莫尔伍德在一篇报道中写道。人们的大脑试图把资源分配给最紧迫的问题。
Researchers studied groups of people from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
community, ranging in age from 18 to 65. The first group was asked to perform simple tasks,
