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====Serial position====
The ''[[Serial-position effect]]'' is meant to test a theory of memory that states that when information is given in a serial manner, we tend to remember information at the beginning of the sequence, called the ''primacy effect'', and information at the end of the sequence, called the ''recency effect''. Consequently, information given in the middle of the sequence is typically forgotten, or not recalled as easily. This study predicts that the recency effect is stronger than the primacy effect, because the information that is most recently learned is still in working memory when asked to be recalled. Information that is learned first still has to go through a retrieval process. This experiment focuses on human memory processes.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Surprenant AM | title = Distinctiveness and serial position effects in tonal sequences | journal = Perception & Psychophysics | volume = 63 | issue = 4 | pages = 737–745 | date = May 2001 | pmid = 11436742 | doi = 10.3758/BF03194434 | doi-access = free }}</ref>