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Your brain is programmed to ignore the middle.
The serial position effect was first identified and described by Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885.
Feigenbaum and Simon's 1962 work provided a computational model (EPAM) for the phenomenon rather than its discovery.
The middle of the day is likely the most forgettable part.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Serial position effect, 1962
- What the check found
- While the serial position effect exists, naming a 1962 model as its origin is historically inaccurate; it misattributes a decades-older discovery to a later theoretical simulation.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.