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disposition > cognition > memory > working memory > procedural working memory

Preferred term

procedural working memory  

Definition

  • A component of working memory that temporarily holds condition–action rules, guiding the cognitive operations applied to declarative representations.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Oberauer, K. (2009). Design for a working memory. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 51, p. 45‑100). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-7421(09)51002-X

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Oberauer, K. (2010). Declarative and procedural working memory: Common principles, common capacity limits? Psychologica Belgica, 50(3-4), 277-308. https://doi.org/10.5334/pb-50-3-4-277

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Postle, B. R., & Oberauer, K. (2024). Working memory: Theoretical, computational, and neural considerations. In M. J. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory: Foundations and Applications (Vol. 1, pp. 371–414). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190917982.013.14

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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