Association Machine
Alan Baddeley showed in 1966 in his study of memory encoding that information is normally stored as sound in the short-term memory.[13] This is opposed to long-term memory where the information is normally stored semantically. Long-term memory is like a gigantic association machine.
For instance, immediately recalling a group of words like cat, hat, fat, rat is much harder than immediately recalling little, small, tiny, modest. The latter words are acoustically different and are easier to distinguish for our working memory’s Phonological Loop.
Delaying the recall a day turns this truth upside down. With delayed recall, it’s ...
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