Does length or neighborhood size cause the word length effect?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1198-1210

  Jalbert, Annie ^a   Neath, Ian ^a   Surprenant, Aimée M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Memory; Recognition; Serial position effects; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856501046     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0094-z     Document Type: Article

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