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Short-Term Memory and the Machinery of Consciousness

Short-Term Memory and the Machinery of Consciousness

From rehearsal to chunking: the hidden structure behind everyday awareness

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Jun 25, 2025
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The best-known component of immediate memory is called Short-Term Memory (STM). This is the rehearsable, usually verbal component of immediate memory — the domain in which we rehearse new words and t…

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