Abstract: This paper reviewed systematically the advanced studies on reasoning and working memory, which included five aspects, i.e. (1)the concepts and the related studies on reasoning and working memory; (2)theoretical models of reasoning and working memory; (3)studies on the relationship between different kinds of reasoning and working memory; and (4)their cognitive neuroscience studies; (5) in the end, the directions for future researches of reasoning and working memory were put forward

Key words: working memory, analogical reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, conditional reasoning, predictive inference