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working memory

British  

noun

  1. psychol the current contents of a person's consciousness

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"But it also brings challenges with working memory and remembering things and if you don't have those systems and strategies in place it just feels like you're trying to swim uphill constantly."

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Participants who stopped practicing music showed declines in verbal working memory and a reduction in gray matter volume within the right putamen.

From Science Daily Jun. 13, 2026

These capabilities make it “exceptionally” suited for complex agentic AI workloads, which demand extensive working memory for context retention and high-speed communication, Alibaba said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

But my working memory and attention were at the low end of average.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

Each chunk, no matter how much information is packed inside it, occupies a single slot in working memory.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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