It seems to vary (up to the extent of working memory being considered a part of long term memory which happens to be the subject of focus!). I suspect ‘medium-term memory’ is more what I am referring to but some just classify that is ‘long term memory that you possibly will not bother consolidating all that much’. Whatever it is when we ‘get’ the thing we are reading but then fill our working memory with random numbers.
It seems to vary (up to the extent of working memory being considered a part of long term memory which happens to be the subject of focus!). I suspect ‘medium-term memory’ is more what I am referring to but some just classify that is ‘long term memory that you possibly will not bother consolidating all that much’. Whatever it is when we ‘get’ the thing we are reading but then fill our working memory with random numbers.