单词 | working memory |
释义 | > as lemmasworking memory working memory n. (a) an effective or functioning memory; (Psychology) the part of memory involved in retaining transitory information for a short period and manipulating it; short-term memory; (b) Computing a part of a computer's memory that is used by a program for the storage of intermediate results or other temporary items. ΚΠ 1874 F. Galton Eng. Men of Sci. ii. 112 In other words, it is a capital working memory. I never tried to learn pages of poetry, &c.; in this I should probably have failed. 1902 A. M. Stewart Crown of Sci. (ed. 3) xiv. 199 Our working memory is only a fragment of what we hold in the secret recesses of our mind. 1927 Classical Jrnl. 23 17 Holding in his working memory all these items, the pupil is directed to comprehend the sentence without associating it with the vernacular. 1955 Financial Times 24 Oct. 5/6 The machine..can undertake mathematical operations at speeds which compare favourably with those taken by much larger machines..despite the fact that its working memory, where information is temporarily stored during calculations, is relatively small. 1965 Neuropsychologia 3 89 The proposal is for a ‘working memory’ rather than a recent memory, i.e. for a mechanism that pulls from permanent storage those neural patterns useful to handling current inputs. 1992 New Scientist 21 Nov. (Secret Life of Brain Suppl.) 4/3 Your conversation depends on another brand of memory: working memory, which enables us to hold fleeting material in our heads so that we can build and understand complex sentences. 2012 Observer (Nexis) 18 Mar. 21 The computer on which I'm writing this has four gigabytes (GB) of it, which is roughly 6,000 times the working memory of the original PC. < as lemmas |
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