Some Tests of the Decay Theory of Immediate Memory

By John Brown. 1958

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Pre-Trained Models: Past, Present and Future (2021, background): “As an alternative, cognitive scientists have revealed that humans could maintain a working memory (Baddeley, 1992; Brown, 1958; Barrouillet et al., 2004; Wharton et al., 1994), which not only memorizes and organizes but also forgets.”
Working-memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: limits on long-term memory retrieval. (2000, methodology): “tions between short-term memory span and proactive interference in two experiments with Brown-Peterson-type tasks (Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959).”
The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory. (2007, background): “Kane and Engle had high and low WMC individuals perform a variant of the Brown–Peterson task (J. Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959) to assess the buildup of PI.”
The demise of short-term memory revisited: empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. (2005, unknown): “…recall is due only to the retrieval of 8 The previous explorations have led us to a set of parameter values that capture the qualitative aspects of the data from several memory paradigms such as free and cued recall as well as the Brown–Peterson task (J. Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959).”
A temporal ratio model of memory. (2007, result): “…of consonant pairs (J. Brown, 1958) or trigrams (Peterson & Peterson, 1959) when rehearsal was prevented during the retention interval was interpreted at the time as evidence for trace decay models (J. Brown, 1958) and as evidence that different principles governed short- and long-term forgetting.”
Learning in the Presence of Concept Drift and Hidden Contexts (1996, result): “In psychology, the principle of memory decay was discovered and studied by Brown (1958), though, in principle, it relates to the very early work by Ebbinghaus (1885); for a more recent analysis see (Reitman, 1974).”
The Phonological Loop (2010, background): “One characteristic of short-term memory was its rapid decay, which could be prevented by subvocal rehearsal in the case of linguistic tasks (Brown 1958; Peterson and Peterson 1959).”
Modelling neural correlates of working memory: A coordinate-based meta-analysis (2011, unknown): “Most psychological and neurobiological models on the organization of human memory share the long-held dichotomy between short-term (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968; Brown, 1958; Hebb, 1949; Peterson and Petersen, 1959).”
Trait and State Differences in Working Memory Capacity (2010, methodology): “In one version of the PI task, participants attended to a three-letter stimulus and counted backward during the delay periods from 0 to 18 s, making the task to remember the letters more difficult (Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959).”
On the Form of Forgetting (1991, methodology): “The experiment employed a variation of the widely used Brown-Peterson task (Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959).”
Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the cognitive control of memory. (2007, background): “Behaviorally, I leads to slowing and can cause forgetting over long and short ntervals (e.g., Anderson & Neely, 1996; Brown, 1958; Keppel Underwood, 1962; Mensink & Raaijmakers, 1988).”
Phonological similarity effects in simple and complex span tasks (2011, methodology): “phonological similarity effect by employing a Brown– Peterson type task (Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1959).”
Buildup and Release from Proactive Interference - Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms. (2020, background): “A second important class of PI tasks is the Brown-Peterson task, which was introduced independently in the late 1950s by Brown (1958) and Peterson and Peterson (1959).”
Working memory: looking back and looking forward (2003, background): “A decade later, support for this distinction came from studies showing that small amounts of information were rapidly forgotten unless actively rehearsed 12,13 .”