By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten
James Gallagher, BBC News, 2017/04/10
If (and it's a big if) this thesis (pay-walled study) is correct, then proponents of cognitive load theory have a lot of rethinking to do. The suggestion is that while brains do indeed store short-term and long-term memory, they store these using two separate processes. More...