Working Memory

From AGIRI.org

Memory that is involved actively in the system's processes of interpreting and acting in the world at a given point in time (including processes of Perception and Deliberation.

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Working Memory and Long Term Memory

While the key part of working memory lies within Short Term Memory, there are also parts within Long Term Memory and perhaps Medium Term Memory.
See http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.long.html for an overview of arguments in favor of the existence of long-term working memory.

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