Date: 1999

"Working memory has been called the 'chalkboard of the mind.'"

— Siegel, Dan J. (b. 1957)

Date: December 10, 2017

"Writing to Wilhelm Fleiss in 1896, Freud used the word Nachträglichkeit --'retranscription'--to describe the brain's action of calling up a memory and revising it in response to fresh circumstances."

— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)

Date: May 28, 2023

"It's like we have an internal whiteboard in our minds ... If I'm working on one task, I have all the info I need on that mental whiteboard. Then I switch to email. I have to mentally erase that whiteboard and write all the information I need to do email."

— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)

Date: May 28, 2023

"And just like on a real whiteboard, there can be a residue in our minds."

— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)