working memory

cognitive system with a limited capacity that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing
Thing memory_type Q11337567
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working memory

Summary

working memory is a memory type[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of memory_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (788 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • working memory's instance of is recorded as memory type[3].
  • working memory's GND ID is recorded as 4332959-7[4].
  • working memory's subclass of is recorded as memory[5].
  • working memory's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[6].
  • working memory's Commons category is recorded as Working memory[7].
  • working memory's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/085rn[8].
  • working memory's described by source is recorded as Working Memory[9].
  • working memory's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/working-memory[10].
  • working memory's different from is recorded as short-term memory[11].
  • working memory's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as memoire-de-travail[12].
  • working memory's Quora topic ID is recorded as Working-Memory[13].
  • working memory's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as working-memory[14].
  • working memory's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as arbeidshukommelse_-_psykologi[15].
  • working memory's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 21963081[16].
  • working memory's Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID is recorded as 10917[17].
  • working memory's Scholarpedia article ID is recorded as Working_memory[18].
  • working memory's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C21963081[19].
  • working memory's Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID is recorded as working-memory[20].
  • working memory's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 26489[21].
  • working memory's FOLDOC ID is recorded as working+memory[22].

Why It Matters

working memory ranks in the top 6% of memory_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (788 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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