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How long memory does humans have?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Research has shown that information can stay in a persons short term memory for approximately 30 seconds before it is lost. However, if this information is repeated regularly so that it is encoded into the long term memory, the duration could be forever.

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