The Ranschburg effect.

Short-term retention of individual verbal items.

Lloyd Peterson, Margaret Jean Peterson · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1959 · 2.9K citations

Memory Retrieval, Cognitive Science, Individual Verbal Items +7

ACOUSTIC CONFUSIONS IN IMMEDIATE MEMORY

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

Psychoacoustics, Neurolinguistics, Cognition +16

Two storage mechanisms in free recall

Murray Glanzer, Anita R. Cunitz · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1966 · 1.2K citations

Storage (Memory), Engineering, Memory System +7

The Psychology of Human Learning

Edwin B. Newman, John A. McGeoch, Arthur L. Irion · The American Journal of Psychology · 1953 · 797 citations

Cognitive Science, Learning Sciences, Learning Psychology +9

Proactive inhibition in short-term retention of single items

Geoffrey Keppel, Benton J. Underwood · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1962 · 768 citations

Cognitive Science, Proactive Inhibition, Inhibitory Process +4