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Tehan, Gerald; Tolan, Georgina Anne – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
The word length effect has been a central feature of theorising about immediate memory. The notion that short-term memory traces rapidly decay unless refreshed by rehearsal is based primarily upon the finding that serial recall for short words is better than that for long words. The decay account of the word length effect has come under pressure…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Serial Ordering, Recall (Psychology), Vocabulary