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SHORT-TERM MEMORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short-term memory mean? 

SHORT-TERM MEMORY (noun)
  The noun SHORT-TERM MEMORY has 1 sense:

1. what you can repeat immediately after perceiving itplay

  Familiarity information: SHORT-TERM MEMORY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHORT-TERM MEMORY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

immediate memory; short-term memory; STM

Hypernyms ("short-term memory" is a kind of...):

memory; remembering (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered)


 Context examples 


Also, a range of cognitive tests were performed related to short-term memory, verbal comprehension and knowledge, psychomotor speed, visual processing, long-term storage and retrieval, and cognitive processing speed.

(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)

A 25-item screening test for dementia that provides quantitative assessment on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment.

(Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, NCI Thesaurus)

A high-dose exposure to domoic acid can lead to amnesic shellfish poisoning, a potentially fatal condition marked by seizures and short-term memory loss.

(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)



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