Editing Decay theory (section)

===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 tasks.<ref name="emtwo" />  Regarding the word-length effect in short-term memory, which states that lists of longer word are harder to recall than lists of short words, researchers argue that interference plays a larger role due to articulation duration being confounded with other word characteristics.<ref name="emthree">{{cite journal | vauthors = Lewandowsky S, Oberauer K | title = The word-length effect provides no evidence for decay in short-term memory | journal = Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | volume = 15 | issue = 5 | pages = 875–88 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 18926980 | doi = 10.3758/PBR.15.5.875 | s2cid = 9604394 | doi-access = free }}</ref>