Talk:Short-term memory

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One form of evidence cited in favor of the separate existence of a short-term store is that anterograde amnesia, the inability to learn new facts and episodes, affects long-term memory while leaving short-term memory intact. Other evidence comes from experimental studies showing that some manipulations (e.g., a distractor task following learning) affect only memory for the 3 to 5 most recently learned words of a list (presumably still held in short-term memory), whereas other manipulations (e.g., semantic similarity of the words) affect only memory for earlier list words (Davelaar et al., 2005)

Someone who understands this statement should conclude the paragraph with an explanatory sentence. My sense is that most people aren't able to make the connection between these two facts and the question of whether there are two separate stores.

• I have tried to clarify this paragraph with some additional information about the experimental procedures used to dissociate short vs. long-term memory processes. Please comment or add questions if it's not clear. Just1n cas3 01:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)