3 ms·
How is this long-term? They were tested on recall the same day. Long-term memory would be a month later. Still, very impressive research - I presume the misu
by Eliezer 18y ago
How is this long-term? They were tested on recall the same day. Long-term memory would be a month later.
Still, very impressive research - I presume the misunderstanding (or omission?) occurred at the press office.
- jsmcgd 18y agoI think the mechanism of short term memory works for about 30 seconds and memory recall after that length of time uses a different long term memory mechanism. So I think they are right to describe recalling events of 5 hrs ago as a function of long term memory.