There are two word-length effects in verbal short-term memory: opposed effects of duration and complexity

Article Abstract:

Research suggests that interference plays a central role in short-term memory and that morphological complexity and temporal duration are fundamental to spoken, immediate serial recall. Interference is solely responsible for the results, although decay was considered as a contributing factor. Decay-based verbal short-term memory theories rely on the word-length effect (WLE), but experiments demonstrate that the WLE consists of two opposed effects in which the more complex, long words and short words have the advantage.

Research, Interference (Linguistics)

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Development of working memory for verbal-spatial associations

Article Abstract:

A study investigates the issue of verbal-to-spatial associations in two experiments on memory for associations between names and spatial locations, with or without a 1-to-1 correspondence between the two. Results show that the 1-to-1 benefit stems from verbal and spatial codes used in parallel and that, without rehearsal, performance appears to index working memory for abstract, cross-modal information.

Memory, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

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A formal model of capacity limits in working memory

Article Abstract:

The interference model that provides satisfactory quantitative fits of four data sets, covering many basic phenomena associated with working memory capacity is discussed. The degradation of representations leads to slower processing and to retrieval mistakes.

Models, Mathematical models, Nonlinear theories

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