Short-term memory and working memory

•The thin edge of the present is what is happening right at this moment, but a moment from now the present will become the past, and some of the past will become stored in memory.•What you will read in this chapter and the two that follow supports the idea that “everything in life is memory” and shows how our memory of the past not only provides a record of a lifetime of events we have experienced and knowledge we have learned, but can also affect our experience of what is happening right at this moment.