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Short-Term versus Long-Term Memory

Explicit memory can be short-term (seconds to hours) or long-term (days to years). short-term
memory has limited capacity, but long-term memory has a lot of available disk space to store data. A
simple example illustrates this point: you may find it difficult to repeat more than two new telephone
numbers recited consecutively to you, but you can easily recall several telephone numbers that are in
long-term storage in your brain. This simple fact tells you that the mechanisms by which the brain
stores short-term and long-term memories must be different.

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Figure 1. The human brain seen through the midline (as if sliced through the middle of the face to the middle of the back
of the head).

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