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Working memory is the system responsible for the transient holding and processing of new and already-stored information, and is an important process for reasoning, comprehension, learning and memory updating.
We have discussed a mechanism for a short-term memory. It is short-term because the memory is transient and that is so because the underlying biochemical changes are transient. The duration of the memory is dependent on how long the various substrate proteins (e.g., membrane channels) are phosphorylated.