+1 862 207 3288 Due to both the ambiguity of the subject and the difficulty of researching it, memory has provided a great deal of controversy in the scientific world. This has been due to issues such as the type of encoding the mind employs in memory tasks, the time limits of storage and other such issues. It was only as recently as the late 1950s however that the question was raised over whether there could exist a separate long term and short term memory system and if so what the various functions of the two are.
Peterson and Peterson (1959) were the first to come up with this Duplex Hypothesis as the result of an experiment into human memory….(short extract)
