Problems of immediate memory have recently come under active consideration both by information theorists and by neurologists. The former have made use of quantitative facts, whilst the latter have based their views on some very general characteristics of forgetting. It is contended that the kind of changes that occur in short‐term forgetting cannot be ignored in any account of immediate memory. Accordingly the main types of immediate memory errors are outlined, and some fresh material relating to known errors is introduced. A discussion is developed which considers the value of information theory and current neurological theories, in accounting for these phenomena.
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A 1959 study studied this question.