No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory. Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Brown, G. D A. Trends Cogn Sci, 13(3):120–126, 2009. doi abstract bibtex Many models of short-term memory (STM) ascribe an important role to temporal decay and forgetting because of the passage of time alone. We argue against decay as the primary form of forgetting from STM, and suggest that new experimental methodologies and recent models provide new perspectives on the old issue of the causes of forgetting. We show that several classic sources of evidence for time-based forgetting can be re-interpreted in terms of an interference-based view, and that new experiments provide compelling evidence against decay. We conclude that progress requires moving beyond demonstrations of qualitative effects and focusing instead on testing quantitative predictions of models.
@Article{Lewandowsky2009,
author = {Lewandowsky, Stephan and Oberauer, Klaus and Brown, Gordon D A.},
journal = {Trends Cogn Sci},
title = {No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory.},
year = {2009},
number = {3},
pages = {120--126},
volume = {13},
abstract = {Many models of short-term memory (STM) ascribe an important role to
temporal decay and forgetting because of the passage of time alone.
We argue against decay as the primary form of forgetting from STM,
and suggest that new experimental methodologies and recent models
provide new perspectives on the old issue of the causes of forgetting.
We show that several classic sources of evidence for time-based forgetting
can be re-interpreted in terms of an interference-based view, and
that new experiments provide compelling evidence against decay. We
conclude that progress requires moving beyond demonstrations of qualitative
effects and focusing instead on testing quantitative predictions
of models.},
doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2008.12.003},
institution = {Schoool of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. lewan@psy.uwa.edu.au},
keywords = {Humans; Memory, Short-Term, physiology; Mental Recall, physiology; Phonetics; Reaction Time, physiology; Time Factors; Vocabulary},
language = {eng},
medline-pst = {ppublish},
pmid = {19223224},
timestamp = {2015.09.28},
}
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