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The Mind and Brain of Short-Term Memory

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Jonides, John, Lewis, Richard L., Nee, Derek Evan, Lustig, Cindy A., Berman, Marc G., Moore, Katherine Sledge·2008·Annual Review of Psychology
DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093615PMC PMC3971378
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The past 10 years have brought near-revolutionary changes in psychological theories about short-term memory, with similarly great advances in the neurosciences. Here, we critically examine the major psychological theories (the “mind”) of short-term memory and how they relate to evidence about underlying brain mechanisms. We focus on three features that must be addressed by any satisfactory theory of short-term memory. First, we examine the evidence for the architecture of short-term memory, with special attention to questions of capacity and how—or whether—short-term memory can be separated from long-term memory. Second, we ask how the components of that architecture enact processes of encoding, maintenance, and retrieval. Third, we describe the debate over the reason about forgetting from short-term memory, whether interference or decay is the cause. We close with a conceptual model tracing the representation of a single item through a short-term memory task, describing the biological mechanisms that might support psychological processes on a moment-by-moment basis as an item is encoded, maintained over a delay with some forgetting, and ultimately retrieved.

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Authors
Jonides, J., Lewis, R. L., Nee, D. E., Lustig, C. A., Berman, M. G., & Moore, K. S.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
ORCID
Venue
Annual Review of Psychology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2008-01-01
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
193-224
ISSN
  • 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2085
DOI
10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093615
PMC
PMC3971378
OpenAlex
W2133804059
Cited by
957
References
185
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FWCI
2.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH060655)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
Keywords
short-term memory, memory architecture, memory capacity, long-term memory, encoding, maintenance, retrieval, forgetting, interference, decay, neural mechanisms of memory
MeSH terms
Attention, Brain, Cognition, Humans, Memory, Short-Term, Neural Pathways, Psychological Theory, Psychophysiology, Retention, Psychology, Time Factors

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