Three experiments compared immediate serial recall of disyllabic words that differed on
spoken duration. Two sets of long-and short-duration words were selected, in each case …

The word length effect is the finding that short items are remembered better than long items
on immediate serial recall tests. The time-based word length effect refers to this finding when …

A number of experiments explored the hypothesis that immediate memory span is not
constant, but varies with the length of the words to be recalled. Results showed:(1) Memory …

The word length effect, the finding that lists of short words are better recalled than lists of
long words, has been termed one of the benchmark findings that any theory of immediate …

Caplan, Rochon, and Waters (1992) report a failure to observe the poorer immediate serial
recall for words of longer spoken duration obtained by Baddeley, Thomson, and Buchanan …

In the word-length effect (WLE), lists of shorter words are better recalled than lists of longer
words This effect is fundamental to decay-based theories of verbal short-term memory, such …

Service (1998) carried out a study of the word length effect with Finnish pseudowords in
which short and long pseudowords were identical except for the inclusion of certain …

The word length effect is the finding that a list of items that take less time to pronounce is
better recalled on an immediate serial recall test than an otherwise equivalent list of items …

Three experiments investigated the effect of word length on a serial recognition task when
rehearsal was prevented by a high presentation rate with no delay between study and test …

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 …