In today's lecture we will continue the study of memory and the processes that accomplish it. Our focus will be on sensory storage and then mainly on short term or working memory (including what distinguishes the two).

The slides for today include slides 13 to 20 from last time and then these, (which overlap those from last Thursday from slide 20 on, but go further) are here.

• Short term memory (STM)--a fundamental bottleneck in our thinking.
• How things enter it
• How we search for things within it..
• How things leave it
• Another way of looking at it (STM vs Working Memory)
• The "bottleneck" issue and an example or two.
• Beating the limits--the work of Chase and Ericcsson: chunks & retrieval structures.