<P> The frontal lobes are also involved in the ability to remember what we need to do in the future; this is called prospective memory . </P> <P> The temporal lobes are a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both the left and right hemispheres of the brain . Lobes in this cortex are more closely associated with memory and in particular autobiographical memory . </P> <P> The temporal lobes are also concerned with recognition memory . This is the capacity to identify an item as one that was recently encountered . Recognition memory is widely viewed as consisting of two components, a familiarity component (i.e. Do I know this person waving at me?) and a recollective component (i.e. That is my friend Julia, from evolutionary psychology class). </P> <P> Damage to the temporal lobe can affect an individual in a litany of ways ranging from: disturbance of auditory sensation and perception, disturbance of selective attention of auditory and visual input, disorders of visual perception, impaired organization and categorization of verbal material, disturbance of language comprehension, and altered personality . </P>

What area of the brain is responsible for short term memory