Working Memory: Better in English or in Hungarian?

Memory is one of the most important things in people s lives, since without it the smallest tasks would be impossible to accomplish. Memory is not only needed for memorising what to do, or for remembering data, but it is needed in everyday life as well, to remember who we are, where we live etc. Memory has been studied by several psychologists during the last three decades. Most of them tried to devise a model how people s memory work and what its task is. Although most of these studies focussed on the whole system, they could differentiate more storage systems. There are two main models of memory that gained most attention: the modal model devised by Atkinson and Shriffin, and Baddeley s working memory model, which improved the modal model by trying to explore the functions of short-term memory. Memory is also important in mental processes such as reading or language learning, and today when speaking foreign languages seems to be vital, it is interesting how language learners are able to remember.... Mehr