Where can I get great results for articles on a short-term memory and pattern recognition and noise?

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That's a great subject, because I am studying that now. :)

I would start with pubmed.com they provide many great journal articles.

Here is a few different ones that are free for everyone, so you don't have to sign in:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1800308&blobtype=pdf
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jianglab/publications/JiangKumarPBR.pdf

This is an online book that can help also:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gAGRCmp8Sp8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR15&sig=SJwfCWUerAB9A59upXv8bu8JFkg&dq=pattern+recognition#PPA3,M1

Some of these articles are pretty intense but use the intro and conclusions to help you. If you need supporting material, look at the works cited of the papers, that will steer you in the right direction.