TY - GEN ID - cogprints796 UR - http://cogprints.org/796/ A1 - Muter, Paul Y1 - 1995/// N2 - In this comment, it is argued that the experiments by Cunningham, Healy, Till, Fendrich, and Dimitry (1993) do not constitute failures to replicate Muter's (1980) finding of very rapid forgetting and do not undermine the conclusion of more rapid forgetting from primary memory than had previously been estimated. In Cunningham et al.'s experiments, expectancy of recall after a filled retention interval, a crucial variable in very rapid forgetting, was more than an order of magnitude higher than in Muter's experiments, and the distracting task was substantially easier. KW - memory KW - forgetting KW - consciousness KW - short-term memory KW - primary memory TI - Very rapid forgetting: Reply to Cunningham, Healy, Till, Fendrich, and Dimitry SP - 383 AV - public EP - 386 ER -