KEY STUDIES MSM

• Sperling

  sensory register

  12 digits shown to pps then they had to recall

  then tried low, medium or high tone.

  LARGE CAPACITY SHORT DURATION
• Jacobs digit span test

  CAPACITY OF STM

  recall numbers and write down
• Miller chunking

  Capacity of STM

  capacity of STM can be improved via chunking
• Brown-Peterson

  Duration of STM

  trigram

  recall trigram but had to count back from 100 to prevent maintenance rehearsal
• maintenance study

  Glanzer and Cunitz

  word list repeat after one min

  Primacy and Regency effects- remember first and last words in the list.

  serial position effect
• Strength of MSM

  supported by research