Usually means: Temporary storage for active processing.
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  1. working memory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. working memory: Merriam-Webster
  3. working memory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. working memory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. working memory: Vocabulary.com
  6. working memory: Dictionary.com
  7. Working Memory, Working memory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. working memory: Rhymezone
  9. working memory: FreeDictionary.org
  10. working memory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. working memory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. working memory: Wiktionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. working memory: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. working memory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. working memory: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Memory, working, Working memory: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. working memory: Medical dictionary
  5. Memory, working, Working memory: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (working memory)

▸ noun:  (psychology) A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.

Similar:
short-term memory, memory, long-term memory, selective memory, sensory memory, memory span, retention, semantic memory, brain cloud, episodic memory, more...

Opposite:
long-term memory, permanent memory, storage memory

Phrases:
Baddeley's model of working memory, Working memory training, Autism and working memory, more...

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Similar:
short-term memory, memory, long-term memory, selective memory, sensory memory, memory span, retention, semantic memory, brain cloud, episodic memory, more...

Opposite:
long-term memory, permanent memory, storage memory

Phrases:
Baddeley's model of working memory, Working memory training, Autism and working memory, more...



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