Mind & EverydayFact

Why you recall a list's start and end, not its middle.

Learn a list of 15 words and you'll recall the first and last ones best. The first ones you had time to rehearse, so they're in long-term memory. The last ones are still fresh in working memory. The middle got neither. These are called the primacy and recency effects.

Useful: Put the key point of a presentation at the very start or the very end.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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