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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."
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keywords: 'memory, forgetting, consciousness, short-term memory, primary memory'
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title: 'Very rapid forgetting: Reply to Cunningham, Healy, Till, Fendrich, and Dimitry'
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