This volume offers a collection of theoretical perspectives in the area of short-term memory. It contains overviews of models of short-term memory, with particular emphasis placed on the detailed description of the functioning of the models.

The concept of working memory, A. Baddeley; covert processes and their development in short-term memory, N. Cowan, R. Kail; a connectionist model of STM for serial order, N. Burgess, G.J. Hitch; interactive processes in phonological memory, S.E. Gathercole, A.J. Martin; the representation of words and nonwords in short-term memory - serial order and syllable structure, G. Houghton et al; nonword repetition, STM, and word age-of-acquisition - a computational model, G.D.A. Brown, C. Hulme; associations and disassociations between language impairment and list recall - implications for models of STM, R.C. Martin, M.F. Lesch; auditory short-term memory and the perception of speech, C. Frankish; the object-oriented episodic record model, D.M. Jones et al; item, associative, and serial-order information in TODAM, B. Murdock; how many words can working memory hold? - a model and a method, R. Schweickert et al.