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The nature of forgetting from short-term memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Paul Muter
Paul Muter
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada muter@psych.utoronto.ca www.psych.utoronto.ca/~muter
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Abstract

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Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. Any account of short-term memory (STM) should address the following question: If three, four, or five chunks are being held in STM, what happens after attention is diverted?

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Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001, pp. 134
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press