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Decay Theory

Decay Theory is a theoretical explanation in cognitive psychology positing that memory traces fade over time due to the mere passage of time, leading to the erosion of information in short-term memory in the absence of rehearsal or retrieval.

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267

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2017–2026

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Trace Decay Theory

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Some Tests of the Decay Theory of Immediate Memory

John L. Brown · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1958 · 1.4K citations

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ACOUSTIC CONFUSIONS IN IMMEDIATE MEMORY

Rupert Conrad · British Journal of Psychology · 1964 · 1.4K citations

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Short-Term Memory in Vision

Emanuel Averbach, A. S. Coriell · Bell System Technical Journal · 1961 · 874 citations

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Decay theory of unstable quantum systems

L. Fonda, G. C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini · Reports on Progress in Physics · 1978 · 631 citations

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Mathematical functions for the analysis of luminescence decays with underlying distributions 1. Kohlrausch decay function (stretched exponential)

Mário N. Berberan‐Santos, Bernard Valeur · Chemical Physics · 2005 · 573 citations

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Authors

267

  1. KO
    Klaus Oberauer

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    6 publications · 507 citations

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  2. SL
    Stephan Lewandowsky

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    5 publications · 418 citations

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  3. WB
    Wolfgang Bühring

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    4 publications · 286 citations

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  4. NC
    Nelson Cowan

    University of Missouri, United States

    3 publications · 171 citations

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  5. RC
    Rupert Conrad

    University of Bonn, Germany

    3 publications · 1.5K citations

    3

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Institutions

161

  1. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    452 citations

  2. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    315 citations

  3. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    316 citations

  4. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    233 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    188 citations

  6. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    997 citations

  7. University of Missouri

    Columbia, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    447 citations

  8. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

    Trieste, Italy

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    79 citations

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  2. Physical Review

    6 publications · 388 citations

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  3. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

    6 publications · 483 citations

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  4. Psychological Science

    6 publications · 577 citations

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  5. Nuclear Physics

    4 publications · 286 citations

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