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working memory
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working memory
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(Psychology) Psychol the current contents of consciousness
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Noun1.working memory - memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking
remembering, memory - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
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1984) demonstrated that the word length effect (short words being recalled better than long words) was abolished by concurrent articulation during encoding and recall, whereas the phonological similarity effect (lists of different-sounding words being recalled better than lists of similar-sounding words) remained intact.
A PHONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT FOR THE CROSS-LANGUAGE VARIATION IN WORKING ... by CHEUNG, HIM; KEMPER, SUSAN; LEUNG, E. / The Psychological Record
 
 
 
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