Susan Gathercole and Tracy Alloway describe Working Memory as the ability to hold and manipulate information in mind for a short time. It is the mental workspace in our brain and I’ve always loved the analogy to a post-it-note. Short-Term Memory and Working Memory can often be used interchangeably, but they are distinct. Short-Term Memory simply involves storage of information, such as remembering a message that someone gives us. Working Memory differs in that it requires both storage and proce