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Thoughts from the long-term memory chair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Jonathan K. Foster*
Affiliation:
The Medical School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia, and Neurosciences Unit, Health Department of Western Australia, Mt. Claremont, WA 6010, Australia

Abstract:

With reference to Ruchkins et al.'s framework, this commentary briefly considers the history of working memory, and whether, heuristically, this is a useful concept. A neuropsychologically motivated critique is offered, specifically with regard to the recent trend for working-memory researchers to conceptualise this capacity more as a process than as a set of distinct task-specific stores.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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