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'''작업 기억'''(作業記憶, Working memory)은 다른 [[감각 기관]]으로부터 들어오는 [[정보]]를 머리 속에 잠시 잡아 뒀다가 [[기억]]하는 것이다.<ref>[http://health.joseilbo.com/html/news/?f=read&code=1329273077&seq=5648 열심히 해도 성적 안오른다면? … ‘작업기억’ 훈련해야] {{웨이백|url=http://health.joseilbo.com/html/news/?f=read&code=1329273077&seq=5648 |date=20131110095143 }}13-10-23《조세일보 헬스Q》박정환</ref>
심리학적으로 작업기억은 경험한 것을 수 초 동안만 머릿속에 받아들이고 저장하고 인출하는 정신 기능이라고 할 수 있다.<ref>우리말샘- 작업기억등</ref>

== 작업기억 ==
작업 기억은 정보를 일시적으로 저장할 수 있는 제한된 능력을 가진 인지 시스템이다.<ref>{{서적 인용|title=Models of working memory. Mechanisms of active maintenance and executive control|editor1=Miyake, A.|editor2=Shah, P.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999 |isbn=0-521-58325-X}}</ref> 작업 기억은 추론과 의사 결정 및 행동 지침에 중요하다.<ref name="Executive functions">{{저널 인용| author = Diamond A | title = Executive functions | journal = Annu Rev Psychol | volume = 64 | pages = 135–168 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23020641 | pmc = 4084861 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143750 | quote = WM (holding information in mind and manipulating it) is distinct from short-term memory (just holding information in mind). They cluster onto separate factors in factor analyses of children, adolescents, and adults (Alloway et al. 2004, Gathercole et al. 2004). They are linked to different neural subsystems. WM relies more on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, whereas maintaining information in mind but not manipulating it [as long as the number of items is not huge (suprathreshold)] does not need involvement of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (D’Esposito et al. 1999, Eldreth et al. 2006, Smith & Jonides 1999). Imaging studies show frontal activation only in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex for memory maintenance that is not suprathreshold.<br /><br />WM and short-term memory also show different developmental progressions; the latter develops earlier and faster.}}</ref><ref name="NHM-Cognitive Control">{{서적 인용|title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience|vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE|publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical|year=2009|isbn=978-0-07-148127-4|veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY|edition=2nd|location=New York|pages=313–321|chapter=Chapter 13: Higher Cognitive Function and Behavioral Control|quote={{bull}} Executive function, the cognitive control of behavior, depends on the prefrontal cortex, which is highly developed in higher primates and especially humans.<br />{{bull}} Working memory is a short-term, capacity-limited cognitive buffer that stores information and permits its manipulation to guide decision-making and behavior.&nbsp;...<br /> working memory may be impaired in ADHD, the most common childhood psychiatric disorder seen in clinical settings&nbsp;... ADHD can be conceptualized as a disorder of executive function; specifically, ADHD is characterized by reduced ability to exert and maintain cognitive control of behavior. Compared with healthy individuals, those with ADHD have diminished ability to suppress inappropriate prepotent responses to stimuli (impaired response inhibition) and diminished ability to inhibit responses to irrelevant stimuli (impaired interference suppression).&nbsp;... Early results with structural MRI show thinning of the cerebral cortex in ADHD subjects compared with age-matched controls in prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex, areas involved in working memory and attention.}}</ref> 작업 기억은 종종 [[단기 기억]]과 동의어로 혼동해서는 안되며 일부 전문가들은 작업 기억이 저장된 정보의 조작을 허용한다고 가정하여 두 가지 형태의 기억을 구별하는 반면 단기 기억은 정보의 단기 저장만을 의미한다고 가정한다.<ref name="Executive functions" /><ref name="Cowan">{{서적 인용| title = What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory? | author=Cowan, Nelson | journal=Prog. Brain Res. | year=2008 | issue=169 | pages=323–338 |pmid=18394484 | doi=10.1016/S0079-6123(07)00020-9 | pmc=2657600 | volume=169| series=Progress in Brain Research | isbn=978-0-444-53164-3 }}</ref>작업 기억은 [[인지 심리학]], [[신경 심리학]](neuropsychology) 및 [[신경 과학]]의 중심이 되는 이론적 개념이다.

== 같이 보기 ==
* [[손가락 두드리기검사]]
* [[위스콘신카드분류검사]]
* [[자동적 사고]]
* [[집행 기능]]

== 참고 ==
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