creators_name: Muter, Paul
type: journalp
datestamp: 1999-02-17
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:17
metadata_visibility: show
title: Very rapid forgetting: Reply to Cunningham, Healy, Till, Fendrich, and Dimitry
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: memory, forgetting, consciousness, short-term memory, primary memory
abstract: 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.
date: 1995
date_type: published
publication: Memory & Cognition
volume: 23
number: 3
pagerange: 383-386
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Muter, Paul  (1995) Very rapid forgetting: Reply to Cunningham, Healy, Till, Fendrich, and Dimitry.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/796/1/Abs1995.htm