working memory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The transformer does all of that work repeatedly against a vast “context,” or the totality of the information a model can handle at one time in working memory.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
In early elementary school, children may struggle with their working memory, including learning simple children’s songs.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
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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