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====Short-term memory==== [[Henry L. Roediger III]] and Schmidt found that the act of retrieval can serve as the source of the failure to remember, using multiple experiments that tested the recall of categorized and paired associative lists.<ref name = Roediger>{{cite journal | last1 = Roediger | first1 = H.L. | last2 = III | last3 = Schmidt | first3 = S.R. | year = 1980 | title = Output interference in the recall of categorized and paired associative lists | journal = Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory | volume = 6 | pages = 91β105 | doi=10.1037/0278-7393.6.1.91| s2cid = 39396769 }}</ref> Three experiments were carried out where subjects were first presented with category lists, and then, asked to recall the items in the list after being shown the category name as a cue.<ref name="Roediger"/> The further the test position from the category resulted in a decline of the recall of words. A fourth experiment revealed that only recent items were present in output interference in paired associative lists.<ref name="Roediger"/> [[File:Gray739-emphasizing-hippocampus.png|thumb|right|alt=Hippocampus|''Hippocampus highlighted in blue'']] [[File:Amygdala.gif|thumb|left|alt=Amygdala|''Amygdala highlighted in red'']]
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