Short term memory Clause Samples

Short term memory. Short term memory refers to our ability to hold a limited amount of information in a very accessible state temporarily (▇▇▇▇▇, 2008). The majority of short term memory games also combined some element of attentional focus. A popular game involves remembering sequence of stimuli presented on screen. This could take the form of recalling the sequence in which a coloured shape flashed on the screen (e.g. Repeated; Pineapple Media, 2013) or to recall a change in two sets of stimuli. In the example from the Rosetta Stone Fit Brains app (Rosetta Stone Canada Inc., 2014), a series of numbers and letters are presented on the screen before being removed, then returned with one digit missing (see Figure 16). The user must identify which digit is now missing. The number of digits increases in intensity to increase the