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RETRIEVAL TIME IN SHORT‐TERM MEMORY
Author(s) -
WAUGH NANCY C.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1970.tb02795.x
Subject(s) - psychology , short term memory , term (time) , cognitive psychology , long term memory , test (biology) , perception , memory test , cognition , working memory , neuroscience , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Two experiments were performed in order to test the hypothesis that the time taken to remember a recently presented verbal item depends on whether the item is retrieved from primary (immediate post‐perceptual) or from secondary (relatively long‐term) memory. The results indicate that retrieval from primary memory takes significantly less time than retrieval from secondary, and that an item available in both stores is retrieved from the former (after a relatively short delay).