Elimination of the word length effect by irrelevant sound revisited

Tremblay, Sebastien, Macken, William John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2928-656X and Jones, Dylan Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542 2000. Elimination of the word length effect by irrelevant sound revisited. Memory & Cognition 28 (5) , pp. 841-846. 10.3758/BF03198419

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Abstract

The word length effect refers to the tendency for lists of long words to be recalled less well than lists of short words. Theoretical and empirical objections are raised to a recent claim that irrelevant speech eliminates the word length effect (Neath, Suprenant, & LeCompte, 1998). A first experiment using a within-subjects design of adequate power (N = 65) fails to replicate their finding, showing instead that the word length effect is not differentially eliminated by speech as opposed to tones. In a second experiment, the effect of change (repeated vs. changing sounds) is shown to be additive to the effect of word length for both speech and nonspeech. Irrelevant speech and irrelevant tones have comparable effects on lists of short or lists of long words. These results are at variance with the feature model (e.g., Nairne, 1990).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0090-502X
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 08:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/34771

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