Short-term and Working Memory

This special issue ponders a detailed and contemporary analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of short-term and working memory. Articles focus on short-term memory for phonological semantic and spatial material on executive function and on short-term forgetting. The empirical perspectives include the neuroimaging of short-term memory short-term memory development and the neuropsychology and neurobiology of memory in addition to laboratory-based experimental studies. Together these articles identify significant current models and approaches to short-term and working memory providing a broad set of perspectives which illustrate the wide impact of working memory on the understanding of human cognition.