working memory

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   memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking

   Broadermemory

Questions about working memory

What does working memory mean?

working memory means "memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking".

Is working memory a common word?

working memory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.