Short-Term and Working Memory

Abstract

Abstract The study of short-term memory, the retention of small amounts of information over brief time intervals, formed a major component of the development of cognitive psychology during the 1960s. It had a strong theoretical component, derived from the increasingly influential computer metaphor, combined in Britain at least with a concern for application to problems such as those of air traffic communication (Broadbent, 1958) and of coding in tele phony and postal systems (Conrad, 1964).