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===Short-Term Memory===

Within the [[short-term memory]] system, evidence favours an interference theory of forgetting, based on various researchers’ manipulation of the amount of time between a participant’s retention and recall stages finding little to no effect on how many items they are able to remember.<ref name="emone" /> Looking solely at verbal short-term memory within studies that control against participants’ use of rehearsal processes, a very small temporal decay effect coupled with a much larger interference decay effect can be found.<ref name="emtwo" /> No evidence for temporal decay in verbal short-term memory has been found in recent studies of serial recall tasks2tasks.<ref name="emtwo" /> Regarding the word-length effect in short-term memory, which states that longer word lists are harder to recall than short word lists, researchers argue that interference plays a larger role due to articulation duration being confounded with other word characteristics3.

===Working Memory===