The testing effect is a well-known concept referring to gains in learning and retention that
can occur when students take a practice test on studied material before taking a final test on …

Any mature field of research in psychology—such as short-term/working memory—is
characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to …

The recency effect in free recall is widely held to reflect output from a short-term storage
system. Three groups of experiments are described which cast doubt on this interpretation …

Time is a universal psychological dimension, but time perception has often been studied
and discussed in relative isolation. Increasingly, researchers are searching for unifying …

Sustained negative affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect are hallmark features of
major depressive disorder. Recent research has suggested that difficulties in emotion …

Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-
term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …

Working memory capacity is traditionally treated as a unitary construct that can be explained
using one cognitive mechanism (eg, storage, attention control). Several recent studies have …

This new edition of Human Memory: Theory and Practice contains all the chapters of the
previous edition (unchanged in content) plus three new chapters. The first edition was …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to review and discuss theories of working memory with
special attention to their relevance to language processing. Method We begin with an …