caa a22 4500 445295015 CHVBK 20180317142539.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11571-010-9131-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11571-010-9131-z Tarnow Eugen 18-11 Radburn Road, 07410, Fair Lawn, NJ aut Short term memory bowing effect is consistent with presentation rate dependent decay [Elektronische Daten] [Eugen Tarnow] I reanalyze the free recall data of Murdock, J Exp Psychol 64(5):482-488 (1962) and Murdock and Okada, J Verbal Learn and Verbal Behav 86:263-267 (1970) which show the famous bowing effect in which initial and recent items are recalled better than intermediate items (primacy and recency effects). Recent item recall probabilities follow a logarithmic decay with time of recall consistent with the tagging/retagging theory. The slope of the decay increases with increasing presentation rate. The initial items, with an effectively low presentation rate, decay with the slowest logarithmic slope, explaining the primacy effect. The finding that presentation rate limits the duration of short term memory suggests a basis for memory loss in busy adults, for the importance of slow music practice, for long term memory deficiencies for people with attention deficits who may be artificially increasing the presentation rates of their surroundings. A well-defined, quantitative measure of the primacy effect is introduced. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Short term memory nationallicence Presentation rate nationallicence Free recall nationallicence Synapse nationallicence Endocytosis nationallicence Bowing effect nationallicence Primacy effect nationallicence Priming nationallicence Cognitive Neurodynamics Springer Netherlands 4/4(2010-12-01), 367-376 1871-4080 4:4<367 2010 4 11571 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-010-9131-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-010-9131-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tarnow Eugen 18-11 Radburn Road, 07410, Fair Lawn, NJ aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Neurodynamics Springer Netherlands 4/4(2010-12-01), 367-376 1871-4080 4:4<367 2010 4 11571 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer