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According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, a dual-store memory model set forth by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, memories can reside in the short-term “ buffer ” for a limited time while they are simultaneously strengthening their associations in long-term memory.

When items are first presented, they enter short-term memory, but because it has limited space, as new items enter, old ones leave.

However, each time an item is rehearsed while it is in short-term memory, it is also increasing its strength in long-term memory.

The longer an item stays in short-term memory, the stronger the association becomes in long-term memory.

In long-term store, items are recalled through retrieval cues in a two-step process.

First, context is used as a cue to probabilistically select an item to be potentially recalled.

Second, that item is probabilistically determined to be recalled or not.