Alternative Model for STM / LTM Performance Differences

C. Ranganath and R. S. Blumenfeld, "Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory," Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed. ), vol. 9, pp. 374-380, August. 2005.

Effects of "Attention Networks"

M. E. Wheeler and A. M. Treisman, "Binding in short-term visual memory." J. Exp. Psychol. Gen., vol. 131, pp. 48-64, March. 2002.

"In the proposed model, working memory capacity is limited both by the independent capacity of simple feature stores and by demands on attention networks that integrate this distributed information into complex but unified thought objects."

STM and LTM not separate?

K. A. Cameron, H. J. Haarmann, J. Grafman and D. S. Ruchkin, "Long-term memory is the representational basis for semantic verbal short-term memory," Psychophysiology, vol. 42, pp. 643-653, November. 2005.

"This result implies that activated long–term memory provides a representational basis for semantic verbal short-term memory, and hence supports theories that postulate that short- and long-term stores are not separate."

Attention-switching and Temporal-order information in STM

S. Grossberg and G. Stone, "Neural dynamics of attention switching and temporal-order information in short-term memory," Memory and Cognition, vol. 14, pp. 451-468, 1986.