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TY - GEN ID - cogprints7337 UR - http://cogprints.org/7337/ A1 - Tarnow, Dr. Eugen TI - The free recall search process introduces errors in short term memory but apparently not in long term memory Y1 - 2011/05/05/ N2 - Here it is reported that the free recall search process increases the error rate for short term memory (about 1% per second in data from Murdock & Okada (1970)) but not for long term memory (in data from McDermott (1996)). If the short term memory search process introduces random excitations, which would account for the search errors, the subjects should be unaware of making such errors. This is in agreement with DRM findings (Gallo, 2010) and the new finding that the error terminated distributions in Murdock (1962) are the same as those terminated by studied items. AV - public KW - short term memory KW - memory search KW - memory errors KW - long term memory ER -