ABSTRACT
The term “short-term memory” is a rather slippery one. To the general public, it refers to remembering things over a few hours or days, the sort of capacity that becomes poorer as we get older and is dramatically impaired in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. To psychologists, however, these are long-term memory (LTM) problems. Remembering over a few minutes, hours or a few years all seem to depend on the same long-term memory system.
