Short-term memory

Short-term memory
A system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Short-term memory is involved in the selection, initiation, and termination of information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data. One test of short-term memory is memory span, the number of items, usually words or numbers, that a person can hold onto and recall. In a typical test of memory span, an examiner reads a list of random numbers aloud at about the rate of one number per second. At the end of a sequence, the person being tested is asked to recall the items in order. The average memory span for normal adults is 7. Short-term memory is also termed recent or working memory.

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short-term memory n memory that involves recall of information for a relatively short time (as a few seconds) <short-term memory is involved when a phone number is remembered just long enough to dial it> abbr. STM

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memory that is lost within a brief period (from a few seconds to a maximum of about 30 minutes) unless reinforced.

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