27 Mar short-term memory

Also called working memory, short-term memory is where (or how) we store temporary representations of facts or objects for immediate processing. Whereas long-term recall requires either a profound or repeated exposure to the information, short-term memory can be fed by light rehearsal. In the metaphor of the mechanical brain, short-term memory would be the RAM.
Keywords: recall
episodic memory
declarative memory
procedural memory
knowledge
memory
RAM
References: associationism
cognition
inference
knowledge
learning
memory
taxonomy