Evidence for ST vs LT Memory

• Rapid forgetting of briefly learned, unrehearsed material

• Serial position effects

  • Primacy vs. recency

• Coding differences

  • phonetic/phonological in ST memory
  • semantic in LT memory

• Limited capacity of ST memory

• Neurological evidence

  • retrograde amnesia
  • HM

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