A Game to Test Your Short-Term Memory

In cognitive science, there are multiple theories that characterize how short-term memory works. There are two interesting analogies that cognitive scientists use to describe memory:

• Memory contains slots and we put items into these slots to memorize them;
• Or memories are resources that we can distirbute to the items we try to remember.

For example, Zhang. et. al. supports the theory that working memory stores a small set of discrete, fixed-resolution representations (the "slot" analogy).