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The brain system that provides temporary holding and processing of information to accomplish complex cognitive tasks such as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning; the information that you are focusing on at a given moment, is concerned with

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Working memory

Working memory is the active cognitive workspace that temporarily holds and manipulates information while performing complex tasks such as language comprehension, reasoning, learning, and mental arithmetic — it corresponds precisely to the information you are consciously focusing on at a given moment.
Short-term memory refers to passive, brief retention of information without the active manipulation component that defines working memory.
Episodic memory is a long-term system storing personally experienced autobiographical events and their temporal context.
Semantic memory is a long-term store of general factual knowledge, concepts, and meanings — not moment-to-moment active processing.

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