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Definition of Short-term memory

1. Noun. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.

Medical Definition of Short-term memory

1. Temporary storage of information for a few seconds to hours, as opposed to long-term memory which refers to material stored for days, years, or a lifetime. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Short-term Memory

Literary usage of Short-term memory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"As a result, long-term memory has often been thought to be a graded extension of short-term memory. Yet a variety of clinical studies, ..."

2. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Transformation on sets in short term memory: set 345. size reduction by deletion. J Exp Psychol 82:415-426 (1969). 319. DeRosa DV, Sabol M. Transformation ..."

3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"... or on short-term memory, but they specifically block consolidation into long-term memory. [2] Second, this disruption by protein synthesis inhibitors ..."

4. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"... on short-term memory, but they specifically block consolidation into long-term memory.[2] Second, this disruption by protein synthesis inhibitors occurs ..."

5. Sound Systems: Explicit, Systematic Phonics in Early Literacy Contexts by Anna Lyon, Paula Moore (2002)
"A bottleneck occurs when there are so many thought units in short-term memory that some are forgotten before they can be sent to ..."

6. A Guide to Creating Self-learning Materials by Dan R. Minnick (1989)
"short-term memory is stored in the limbic area in the inner brain. ... SENSORY MEMORY • short-term memory. The second type of memory is called short-term, ..."

7. Teaching Children to Be Literate: A Reflective Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1995)
"Fortunately this dysfunction does yield to effective teaching, and the teaching actually helps to improve overall (very) short-term memory, which is highly ..."

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