creators_name: Muter, Paul type: journalp datestamp: 1999-02-17 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:17 metadata_visibility: show title: Very rapid forgetting ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: forgetting, memory, short-term memory, primary memory, consciousness abstract: Human forgetting can be much more rapid than previous experiments have indicated. Subjects who do not expect a test after a filled retention interval can rarely recall three consonants correctly after 2 sec of distraction. If there are two kinds of memory, primary and secondary, the present technique provides a purer method of studying forgetting from primary memory. date: 1980 date_type: published publication: Memory & Cognition volume: 8 number: 2 pagerange: 174-179 refereed: TRUE citation: Muter, Paul (1980) Very rapid forgetting. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/797/1/muter1980.htm