Abstract
This series of experiments concerns short-term retention of the position of a circle on a line (visual-location) and of the length of a motor movement without visual feedback (kinesthetic-distance). Both tasks show forgetting of information over time intervals up to 30 seconds. Visual-location shows a systematic increase in forgetting as interpolated task difficulty is increased. Forgetting of kinesthetic-distance is unrelated to interpolated task difficulty. Analysis of the data suggests that in both tasks primary retention is through imagery rather than verbal codes. Retention of information about visual-location seems to require the availability of central processing capacity but kinesthetic-distance does not. The implications of these findings for the analysis of perceptual-motor skills and for a general theory of short-term memory are examined.
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