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Word Length, Set Size, and Lexical Factors: Re-Examining What Causes the Word Length Effect
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Guitard, Dominic; Gabel, Andrew J.; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Surprenant, Aimée M.; Neath, Ian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The word length effect, better recall of lists of short (fewer syllables) than long (more syllables) words has been termed a benchmark effect of working memory. Despite this, experiments on the word length effect can yield quite different results depending on set size and stimulus properties. Seven experiments are reported that address these 2…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Short Term Memory, Undergraduate Students