The recency effect works because words presented in the middle of a list are "bumped out" of STM by the more recent words, but have not had enough time to be processed deeply enough to enter LTM.

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The recency effect suggests that items at the end of a list are still in short-term memory (STM) and are more easily recalled, while middle items are displaced from STM and not yet encoded into long-term memory (LTM).

The Recency Effect Works Because Words Presented in the Middle