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Direct linkHulme, Charles; Neath, Ian; Stuart, George; Shostak, Lisa; Surprenant, Aimee M.; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
The authors report 2 experiments that compare the serial recall of pure lists of long words, pure lists of short words, and lists of long or short words containing just a single isolated word of a different length. In both experiments for pure lists, there was a substantial recall advantage for short words; the isolated words were recalled better…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experimental Psychology, Serial Learning, Recall (Psychology)
