A comparison of forward versus backward recognition masking.
Dominic W. Massaro · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1973
lias been effectively decreased by these 2 conditions, whether interference conditions were presented separately or in conjunction with each other. Therefore, it can be concluded from those experiments that preventing verbal rehearsal by counting backward and displacing items from the rehearsal buffer by an auditory probe constitute independent processes in the STM system, each contributing a given amount to the total loss of information in the short-term store.