The word-length effect provides no evidence for decay in short-term memory.

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Published in Psychon Bull Rev on October 01, 2008

Authors

Stephan Lewandowsky1, Klaus Oberauer

Author Affiliations

1: School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, West Australia, Australia. lewan@psy.uwa.edu.au

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