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IT has been found that subjects recalling sequences of digits presented in pairs simultaneously to two sense organs (the two ears, or eye and ear)1,2 show preferences between strategies of recall which have been attributed by Broadbent3 to the existence of at least two selectively acting storage systems.
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RABBITT, P. Short-term Retention of more than one Aspect of a Series of Stimuli. Nature 195, 102 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195102a0
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