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The short-term/long-term memory distinction: Back to the past?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Giuseppe Vallar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy

Abstract:

The view that short-term memory should be conceived of as being a process based on the activation of long-term memory is inconsistent with neuropsychological evidence. Data from brain-damaged patients, showing specific patterns of impairment, are compatible with a vision of memory as a multiple-component system, whose different aspects, in neurologically unimpaired subjects, show a high degree of interaction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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