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The serial-position effect is the generalised psychological tendency people have to be able to recall the leading and trailing items in a list more easily than those towards the middle of the list.
It's very widespread and has been demonstrated and confirmed many times in different experiments (starting in 1913).
Several theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon, but none is as yet generally accepted as an explanation. See Wikipedia
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"Although it is commonly accepted that learning and memory occur via enduring changes in neuronal properties such as synaptic strength within a network of neurons, many details of these processes remain unknown, including the mechanisms responsible for the pers…
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