What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?

Cowan · Progress in brain research · 2008 · cognitive-psychology · 10.1016/s0079-6123(07)00020-9 · record Cowan2008-what-are-the-differences-between-long-term-s
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Where this record's text came from. faceted 2026-08 by reading the locally held text (html); every evidence string verified as an exact substring of that text before merging. Claim type was a real toss-up between 'existence' and 'critique'. The chapter is framed as a corrective ('This chapter strives to reduce that confusion and makes up-to-date assessments of these types of memory.'), which is critique-shaped, but its substantive verdict is an existence claim about a separable short-term store, so I tagged existence and recorded the critique framing here. The Engle relation is tagged 'contradicts' with a caveat: Cowan immediately downgrades it ('Quotation withheld'), so it is a definitional disagreement, not an empirical contradiction - 'contradicts' is the nearest available enum value. I deliberately EXCLUDED the sentence 'One limitation of the study is that the separation of participants into high versus low span was based on the CDA also...' from limitations, because per rule 6 that is Cowan's criticism of Vogel et al. (2005), not of his own chapter. The retrieved text is a PMC page whose header boilerplate ('Skip to main content', .gov notices) precedes the body; I quoted only body sentences. 2026-08-12 schema-0.3 pass: every quote verified as an exact substring of the staged text and anchored at merge time; concept terms verified present; every edge endpoint an existing node.
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working memory 4 fields · short-term memory 2 fields

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long-term memory short-term memory working memory primary memory secondary memory temporal decay chunk capacity limits chunk focus of attention activated memory central executive episodic buffer phonological loop visuospatial sketchpad covert verbal rehearsal articulatory suppression attention-based rehearsal temporal distinctiveness proactive interference control of attention scope of attention running memory span digit span memory span serial position curve recency effect continual distractor list recall sensory memory contralateral delay activity fluid intelligence Korsakoff’s amnesia antisaccade task magical number seven interference categorical memory Short-term memory arises as a temporarily activated subset of long-term memory, part of which falls within a capacity-limited focus of attention Attention freed by an undemanding distractor task is used for an attention-based rehearsal that refreshes items, so recall falls as the distractor rate consumes that attention Working memory tasks correlate with aptitude because preventing covert rehearsal forces reliance on attention-demanding storage and processing A post-perceptual mask overwrites sensory-specific features in activated memory, leaving only categorical information inside the attention-protected focus free recall serial recall dichotic listening cell assembly nonsense syllables duration difference capacity difference contralateral delay activity (CDA) A chunk A duration difference A capacity difference scope inter-digit blank intervals response cue presentation rate memory load serial position cognitive aptitude interaction effect significant interaction mean M S+L−SL correlate mathematical model review

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facettagfieldconf.whose words
object_of_studythe three terms long-term, short-term and working memory, and whether the distinctions drawn between them are substantive or terminological
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research_questiondo short-term and long-term memory differ in kind — in temporal decay and chunk capacity — and is the further distinction between short-term and working memory a real one
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contributionseparates the substantive question (is there decay, is there a capacity limit) from the terminological one (what shall we call the attention-related part), and concludes the second is a matter of usage while the first is not
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claim_typeexistence
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phenomenonshort-term, long-term and working memory distinctions
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methodreview
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mechanisms[3]the tagger's words
mechanismsthe whole argument is organised as contamination control: for each claimed property of short-term memory, name the confounds that could produce the same result, then ask which studies defeated them
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mechanisms[4]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsa nuisance parameter is varied by four-fold across two modalities and the limit does not move, which converts an ambiguous number into a capacity rather than a rate
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mechanisms[5]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsa cross-modal additivity prediction is used as the test: if one store holds everything, two modalities together cannot exceed the larger single modality alone
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mechanisms[6]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsthe confound is designed out of the experiment rather than corrected for: one trial per participant, gathered by putting the laboratory in a shopping mall
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mechanisms[7]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismschunking is neutralised by choosing tasks in which grouping is impossible — an unpredictable list end, or a four-per-second rate — rather than by trying to measure the chunks
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mechanisms[8]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsthe chunk is made observable by defining it operationally through the participant's own output rather than by the experimenter's guess about grouping
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mechanisms[9]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsa masking step is used to strip away everything except the contested store, so that what remains is the thing being measured
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mechanisms[10]0.9the tagger's words
mechanismsa post-stimulus retention cue splits encoding from maintenance, so the modality-specific and modality-general phases can be measured in the same trial
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mechanisms[11]0.9the tagger's words
mechanismsa warning against reading a box diagram as an ontology: the boxes record the order in which information arrives, not places where memory exclusively lives
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mechanisms[12]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsthe paper demonstrates its own subject matter on the reader inside a parenthesis, using sentence structure to load the reader's working memory
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mechanisms[13]0.9the tagger's words
mechanismsa mathematical model separates two stores by assuming their contributions are independent, S+L−SL; the paper then reports that the data fit a complementary-resource assumption better
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mechanisms[14]0.9the tagger's words
mechanismsa patient dissociation is used to identify which store a response came from: Korsakoff amnesia spares the last few serial positions in immediate recall and not in delayed recall
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mechanisms[15]0.95the tagger's words
mechanismsdecay is reconceived from a gradual fade to a sudden collapse at a trial-varying point, which changes what an averaged curve is evidence for
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mechanisms[16]0.9the tagger's words
mechanismsrehearsal is split into two kinds so that the standard control is shown to be incomplete: articulatory suppression stops the covert-speech kind and leaves the attention-based kind untouched
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mechanisms[17]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsBoth of the properties on which the short-term/long-term distinction rests remain controversial
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what this limits: the short-term/long-term distinction itself: BOTH PROPERTIES OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY ARE STILL CONTROVERSIAL - the distinction rests on two properties, neither settled
limitations[0]the tagger's words
limitationsDecay in particular is left unresolved by the review
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what this limits: the decay half of the distinction specifically: THE QUESTION OF DECAY IS STILL PRETTY MUCH OPEN TO DEBATE, WHEREAS THERE IS GROWING SUPPORT FOR A CHUNK CAPACITY LIMIT
limitations[1]the tagger's words
limitationsHow time limits and chunk capacity limits jointly govern recall is not settled
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what this limits: any account of recall that invokes both limits: THE EXACT WAY IN WHICH THESE LIMITS WORK TOGETHER IS NOT YET CLEAR
limitations[2]the tagger's words
limitationsthe decay claim is still not secure after fifty years of work
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what this limits: every decay-based explanation in the review: THE CONCEPT OF DECAY IS NOT YET ON VERY FIRM GROUND AND WARRANTS FURTHER STUDY
limitations[3]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsthe two limits cannot be cleanly separated even when both are granted
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what this limits: the content of the term short-term memory: WE CAN SAY THAT SHORT-TERM MEMORY EXISTS, BUT OFTEN WITHOUT GREAT CLARITY AS TO WHETHER THE LIMIT IS A TIME LIMIT OR A CHUNK CAPACITY LIMIT - the category is used while its individuating property is undetermined
limitations[4]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsthe number of chunks used in recall is not usually observable, so the capacity number is not directly measurable
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what this limits: every capacity number in the literature: BECAUSE IT IS NOT USUALLY CLEAR WHAT CHUNKS HAVE BEEN USED IN RECALL, IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY CHUNKS CAN BE RETAINED AND WHETHER THE NUMBER IS TRULY FIXED
limitations[5]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsa design in which the grouping variable is also the grouping measure — Vogel et al. split participants by the very signal being compared
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what this limits: the Vogel et al. individual-differences result: THE SEPARATION OF PARTICIPANTS INTO HIGH VERSUS LOW SPAN WAS BASED ON THE CDA ALSO - the grouping variable is the measure under test
limitations[6]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsthe interpretation of the working-memory/aptitude correlation, the field's main reason for using the term, is unsettled
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what this limits: the field's main justification for the term working memory: MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED ON EXACTLY WHAT WE LEARN FROM THE HIGH CORRELATION BETWEEN WORKING MEMORY AND INTELLECTUAL APTITUDES
limitations[7]0.95the tagger's words
limitationsa proposed decay experiment is conceded in advance to be reinterpretable as interference, so the design cannot settle the question
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what this limits: the proposed decay experiment: SUCH RESULTS MIGHT BE ACCOUNTED FOR ALTERNATIVELY AS THE RESULT OF INTERFERENCE ... WITHOUT THE NEED TO INVOKE DECAY - conceded before it is run
limitations[8]0.95the tagger's words
limitationshow the capacity limit and the time limit combine is left unresolved
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what this limits: the same scope as limitations[2] - how the two limits combine
limitations[9]0.95the tagger's words
transfersthe practical demand that created the modern short-term memory task — operators holding rapid dot-dash series, then subscriber numbers — which the paper offers as the ecological source of the nonsense-syllable laboratory
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transfers[0]0.9the tagger's words
transfersthe cell assembly, imported to give short-term memory a physical criterion independent of awareness
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transfers[1]0.9the tagger's words
transfersthe independence rule for a union of two events, S+L−SL, used to split a single recall probability into contributions from two stores
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transfers[2]0.95the tagger's words
controlsa NON-STUDIED control condition, against list words that were each presented exactly four times; what varied was only how many of those presentations were paired
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eliminates: sheer exposure frequency as the explanation of recall - every studied word is seen the same number of times, so a difference between conditions must come from the PAIRING rather than from familiarity · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
controls[0]0.9the tagger's words
conceptslong-term memory
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concepts[0]0.85the paper's words
conceptsworking memory
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conceptsfocus of attention
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conceptscentral executive
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conceptsarticulatory suppression
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conceptsrecency effect
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conceptscontralateral delay activity
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unhoused_relationsshort-term → working memory
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NO BOUNDARY CAN BE DRAWN - the CONCEPTUAL form of the negative relation / This is a claim about the concepts themselves, not about this study's data. No edge type can express it: all eight assert that a relation HOLDS. From the paper that also says short-term memory exists 'without clarity as to whether the limit is time or capacity'. Here the field's two central terms are said to have no clear boundary AT ALL from one influential standpoint - and our corpus separately carries edges that treat them as distinct things.
unhoused_relations[0]the tagger's words
sensesworking memory — three discrepant definitions named together in one sentence: short-term memory applied to cognitive tasks; a multi-component system; the use of attention to manage short-term memory
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senses[0]1.0the tagger's words
sensesworking memory — Cowan's own sense: short-term memory plus the mechanisms that make use of it
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senses[1]0.95the tagger's words
sensesworking memory — Engle's sense: the attention-related aspects only, which redefines short-term memory in the same move
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senses[2]0.95the tagger's words
sensesworking memory — Miller, Galanter and Pribram's original functional sense: memory as it is used to plan and carry out behaviour, with no distinction from short-term memory
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senses[3]0.95the tagger's words
sensesshort-term memory — broader than primary memory, because a temporarily accessible idea need not have been conscious
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senses[4]0.95the tagger's words
sensesshort-term memory — as a neural sense: an active cell assembly, whether or not the individual is aware of it
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senses[5]0.9the tagger's words
sensesrehearsal — covert verbal (articulatory) versus attention-based; only the first is stopped by articulatory suppression
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sensesrehearsal — as even-paced covert articulation versus as a grouping operation; participants asked what they did overwhelmingly reported grouping
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senses[7]0.95the tagger's words
sensescapacity limit — as duration (items decay from storage over time) versus as number (a ceiling on how many items are held); the paper treats these as the two separable ways stores could differ
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sensesdecay — as gradual degradation of trace quality versus as sudden collapse at a trial-varying moment
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sensesattention in working memory — its control versus its scope; Cowan et al. treat these as independent contributors to aptitude
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senses[10]0.95the tagger's words
sensesforgetting — as inevitable decay versus as interference during the retention interval, the split that founded the unitary-memory tradition
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alternativesclaim_type: critique
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a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: existence — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides.
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alternativesmethod: conceptual review — assembles experimental evidence around a contamination framework, naming for each claimed limit the confounds that must be overcome before the evidence counts
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a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: review — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides.
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alternativesphenomenon: memory over the short term — its duration limit, its capacity limit, and its relation to attention
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a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: short-term, long-term and working memory distinctions — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides.
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claim_relationsbuilds-on → Cowan's own earlier theoretical framework (Cowan 1988, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005)
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claim_relations[0]the tagger's words
claim_relationsextends → Baddeley and Hitch's multi-component working memory model
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claim_relations[1]the tagger's words
claim_relationscontradicts → Engle (2002) definition reserving 'working memory' for attention-related aspects of short-term memory
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differs in: the SCOPE of the term: some researchers WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE THE TERM WORKING MEMORY TO REFER ONLY TO THE ATTENTION-RELATED ASPECTS OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY, where this paper uses it more broadly
claim_relations[2]the tagger's words
claim_relationscritiques → the field's use of the term working memory, which the paper diagnoses as a usage dispute rather than a substantive disagreement
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differs in: nothing substantive - the paper says so: THIS, HOWEVER, IS NOT SO MUCH A DEBATE ABOUT SUBSTANCE, BUT RATHER A SLIGHTLY CONFUSING DISCREPANCY IN THE USAGE OF TERMS
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claim_relationscritiques → Miller's magical number seven, on the authority of Miller's own later account of it
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differs in: whether the original number was ever a claim: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY INDICATES THAT HE WAS NEVER VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THE NUMBER SEVEN; IT WAS A RHETORICAL DEVICE THAT HE USED TO TIE TOGETHER THE OTHERWISE UNRELATED STRANDS OF HIS RESEARCH FOR A TALK
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claim_relationscontradicts → the unitary-memory tradition (Melton, Crowder, Nairne, Lewandowsky and others) which holds that one set of principles covers memory at every timescale
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claim_relationsextends → Baddeley and Hitch's multi-component working memory, kept as a shape but not as a component list
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claim_relationscritiques → Cocchini et al.'s conclusion that dissimilar memory loads do not interfere, which would argue against a general cross-domain store
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differs in: THE AXIS IS INTERFERENCE BETWEEN DISSIMILAR LISTS. 'Quotation withheld.' The critique targets an INFERENCE rather than a measurement: the interference result is not disputed, the conclusion drawn from it is.
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claim_relationscritiques → Vogel et al. (2005), for splitting participants on the same signal used as the dependent measure
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differs in: circularity in the split: THE SEPARATION OF PARTICIPANTS INTO HIGH VERSUS LOW SPAN WAS BASED ON THE CDA ALSO, AND THE TASK USED TO MEASURE THE CDA INEVITABLY REQUIRED SELECTIVE ATTENTION ON EVERY TRIAL - the grouping variable is the dependent measure
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claim_relationssupports → Broadbent's and Cowan's revision of the capacity limit from seven to three or four units
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claim_relations[9]0.95the tagger's words
concept_edgesepisodic buffer —same-as→ focus of attention
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strength of the relation: 0.6 — the record marks this weak Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but the episodic buffer is 'POSSIBLY the same as' the focus of attention 'or at least a closely similar concept'; same-as is hedged.
concept_edges[1]the tagger's words
concept_edgesphonological loop —part-of→ activated memory
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strength of the relation: 0.85
concept_edges[2]the tagger's words
concept_edgesfocus of attention —part-of→ activated memory
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concept_edgesshort-term memory —part-of→ long-term memory
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concept_edgesEVIDENCE CORRECTED (RE-GROUNDED) · temporal decay —distinct-from→ chunk capacity limits
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concept_edgestemporal distinctiveness —contrasted-with→ temporal decay
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concept_edgesinterference —contrasted-with→ temporal decay
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concept_edgeschunk capacity limits —distinct-from→ memory span
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concept_edgescovert verbal rehearsal —distinct-from→ attention-based rehearsal
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concept_edgescontrol of attention —distinct-from→ scope of attention
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concept_edgescontrol of attention —operationalised-as→ antisaccade task
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concept_edgesworking memory —operationalised-as→ contralateral delay activity
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concept_edgescentral executive —part-of→ working memory
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concept_edgesshort-term memory —part-of→ working memory
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concept_edgeschunk capacity limits —operationalised-as→ running memory span
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concept_edgessensory memory —distinct-from→ categorical memory
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content_tagsinteraction effect
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content_tagsmean
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content_tagsM
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content_tagssignificant interaction
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content_tagsS+L−SL
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content_tagsmathematical model
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content_tagsReviewing the evidence, the chapter concludes that the chunk capacity limit is well supported whereas temporal decay remains unsettled.
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content_tagsLater studies suggested the capacity limit is more typically three or four units.
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content_tagsChen and Cowan (2005) showed the time limit and the chunk capacity limit in short-term memory are separate.
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content_tagsThe results suggest there could be decay in short-term memory.
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content_tagsThe focus of attention again held three to four items for both unimodal visual and bimodal stimuli.
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content_tagsRetention after the cue showed dual-task effects that were not modality-specific.
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content_tagsBecause the four-item limit appears in vision and audition despite very different sensory persistence, it is a capacity limit and not a transfer-rate limit.
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content_tagsIndividual capacity varies from roughly two to six items in adults and predicts cognitive aptitude.
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content_tagsWhether short-term and working memory differ may be a matter of semantics.
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content_tagsthe capacity limit is more typically three or four units, not seven
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content_tagsMiller was never serious about seven — by his own later account it was a rhetorical device to tie unrelated strands of research together for a talk
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content_tagsindividual capacity ranges from about two to six items in adults and is a strong correlate of cognitive aptitude
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content_tagsvisual and auditory experiments give a common four-item limit despite very different transfer times, so it is best viewed as a capacity rather than a rate limit
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content_tagsthe focus of attention held between three and four items for unimodal visual or bimodal stimuli
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content_tagsafter initial encoding, working memory storage over several seconds may occur abstractly, in the focus of attention
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content_tagsLewandowsky et al. found no decay across response intervals from 400 to 1600 ms under articulatory suppression
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content_tagswhen recall timing had to match presentation timing, a long first half of the response intervals hurt recall (.67 vs .70)
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content_tagsthe Peterson delay effect is absent on the first few trials and when delays are tested in separate blocks
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WHOSE RESULT THIS IS: ested in separate trial blocks ( Turvey et al., 1970 ; Greene, 1996 ). - THE RESULT IS THE CITED WORK'S AND THE CITATION TRAILS THE SENTENCE. A plain noun phrase is the subject of the result verb and the attribution is a bracket at the end - 'Neurons within the dorsal temporal pole demonstrated match suppression ... ( Ng et al., 2014 )'. Neither of my two cues could see this shape, so THESE WERE READ RATHER THAN SWEPT: 36 candidates of the shape, 20 read, 11 marked, 9 refused. THE REFUSALS ARE WHY IT IS NOT A CUE: 'Aru2012 findings[16]' is the paper's OWN result with a citation supporting the localisation, 'Natan2015 findings[3]' ends 'consistent with previous findings ( Szymanski et al., 2009 )' where the main clause is the paper's, and 'Drieu2019' x3 are 'One cannot entirely rule out...' - a limitation, not an attribution. About 55% precise, which is a list to read and not a sweep to run.
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content_tagsan effect of test delay appeared within the first 5 s but not at longer delays
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content_tagsin delayed recall the amnesic patients show a deficit at all serial positions
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content_tagswhen recalling from a long-term category such as US states, people produce items in spurts of about three
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content_tagscapacity estimated at about 3.5 chunks in every learning condition, with prior exposure changing the chunk composition rather than the number
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content_tagsin adults asked how they did a digit span task, grouping was by far the most common answer and saying the items to themselves was rarely mentioned
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content_tagsat four items per second in running span, instructions to rehearse make performance worse rather than better
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content_tagsthe time limit and the chunk capacity limit are separable: long free-recall lists are governed by capacity, short strictly-scored serial lists by time
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content_tagsa random seven-digit list interfered with visual array comparison but the participant's own telephone number did not, and only when recited aloud
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content_tagsin schizophrenia the working memory deficit was in capacity, not in the control of attention — against the authors' own expectation
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content_tagsof the central executive functions, updating correlated with aptitudes while inhibition and shifting did not
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content_tagshigh-span individuals notice their own name in an ignored dichotic channel much less often than low-span individuals
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content_tagsin children too young for covert verbal rehearsal, even a plain digit span task correlates excellently with aptitudes
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content_tagsrecognition of earlier list portions, but not the last few items, activated hippocampal areas associated with long-term retrieval
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content_tagsa possible sudden collapse rather than gradual fade, seen for tone memory between 5 and 10 s with temporal distinctiveness controlled
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content_tagsfree recall of word lists at every level of structure yielded an average of four to six chunks
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content_tagslong-term memory
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content_tagsshort-term memory
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content_tagsworking memory
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content_tagsduration difference
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content_tagsfocus of attention
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content_tagschunk
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content_tagscovert verbal rehearsal
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content_tagsarticulatory suppression
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content_tagscontralateral delay activity (CDA)
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content_tagsLong-term memory
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content_tagsShort-term memory
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content_tagsprimary memory
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content_tagsworking memory
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content_tagsA chunk
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content_tagscovert verbal rehearsal
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content_tagsarticulatory suppression
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content_tagsA duration difference
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content_tagsA capacity difference
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content_tagscontinual distractor list recall
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content_tagsrunning memory span
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content_tagscontralateral delay activity
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content_tagstemporal distinctiveness
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content_tagscentral executive
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content_tagsthree or four units — the capacity limit of short-term storage once chunking is controlled
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content_tagsabout 3.5 chunks — model-estimated capacity limit, constant across learning conditions, in the paired-word list study
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content_tagsapproximately seven items — adult memory span, which the chapter argues overstates capacity because items are not separate chunks
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content_tagsfour to six chunks — average number of chunks recalled across all structure conditions in the free-recall chunk study
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content_tagsM = .70 vs M = .67 — recall proportion with short versus long first-half response intervals when recall timing had to match presentation, the pattern taken as evidence of decay
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content_tagsM =.71 vs M =.74 — recall proportion with short versus long first-half intervals under free-paced recall, where no decay cost appeared
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content_tags5 s — delay window within which a proactive-interference-free study found a genuine test-delay effect
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content_tagstwo to six items — range of individual adult capacity
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content_tagsthree or four units — the revised chunk capacity limit
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content_tagsabout seven items — adult memory span, which is not the same as the chunk capacity
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content_tagsabout two to six items — range of individual capacity in adults
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content_tagsthree items — Broadbent's error-free limit, and the size of recall spurts from a long-term category
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content_tagsabout 3.5 chunks — capacity estimated by the chunk model in every learning condition
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content_tagsfour to six chunks — average recalled across all levels of list structure in Tulving and Patkau
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content_tags400 and 1600 ms — range of inter-item response time over which Lewandowsky et al. found no decay
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content_tagsM = .70 versus M = .67 — recall with a short versus long first half when recall timing had to match presentation timing
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content_tagsM =.71 versus M =.74 — the same comparison when participants recalled at their own pace — the effect reverses
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content_tagsup to 18 s — the filled delay in the Peterson and Peterson trigram procedure
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content_tagsfirst 5 s — window in which a delay effect survived the one-trial-per-participant control
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content_tagsbetween 5 and 10 s — delay range over which tone memory appeared to collapse suddenly
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content_tagsabout 4s — auditory sensory memory decay period in Darwin et al., against about 1 s for Sperling's visual case
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content_tags4 per second — presentation rate in running span fast enough to make rehearsal impossible
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content_tags0.5 s and 2 s — the short and long inter-digit intervals in the Cowan and Aubuchon timing design
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content_tags31 days — longest retention interval in Ebbinghaus's self-experiments
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content_tagsmore than 200 subscribers — the Lowell telephone exchange that introduced numbers, in 1879
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content_tags0, 1, 2, or 4 prior word–word pairings — the learning levels used to vary chunk composition
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content_tagsseven printed digits — list length in the Cowan and Aubuchon timing experiment
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content_tags75% — proportion of trials on which the probed set was the cued one in Gold et al.
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content_tagsmemory span
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content_tagsinter-digit blank intervals
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content_tagsresponse cue
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content_tagspresentation rate
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content_tagsmemory load
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content_tagscontralateral delay activity
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content_tagsserial position
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content_tagscognitive aptitude
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