Rubin & Wenzel (1996)

One hundred years of forgetting: A quantitative description of retention.

Psychological Review, 103(4), 734-760

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Rubin, D. C., & Wenzel, A. E. (1996). One hundred years of forgetting: A quantitative description of retention. Psychological Review, 103(4), 734-760. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.103.4.734

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Forgetting Memory Processes

Measured in humans

Pooling 210 published retention data sets and fitting 105 candidate functions, the best descriptions were logarithmic, power and related functions of time, in which loss is fast at first and then slows