individuals could only recall the letters if the tone was sounded within one third of a second following the display of the letters
if the tone was heard after the memory had faded, they could not recall the letters.
this suggests that information decays rapidly and has a short duration
Glanzer and Cunitz
serial position effect - when asking people to remember a list of words which is greater than the capacity of short term memory they have a tendency to remember words from the beginning and end of the list
Case Study - HM
Surgery for severe epilepsy, removed a small part of his brain called the Hippocampus
STM was intact but unable to make new memories in LTM
