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A final sound can wipe out your last memory.

The suffix effect is the finding that recall of the final items in a list is inhibited if an irrelevant, spoken sound is presented immediately after the list ends.

If a person is asked to remember a sequence of numbers, the addition of a 'useless' syllable like 'zero' at the end significantly decreases their ability to report the final items.

The most recent information you receive is the most fragile.

Where this comes from

Study
Crowder and Morton, 1969
What the check found
The claim accurately describes the established psychological phenomenon documented by Crowder and Morton (1969), despite the lack of direct support in the provided reference snippets.
Confidence
Solid, with limits

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