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Revisiting backward recall and benchmark memory effects: a reply to Bireta et al. (2010)
Word length and age influences on forward and backward immediate serial recall
The present research is aimed at understanding the
processes involved in short-term memory and how they
interact with age. Specifically, word length effects were
examined under forward serial recall, backward serial recall, and item recognition tasks, with performance being interpreted within an item-order theoretical framework. The interaction of age, word length, and direction of recall was examined in two experiments, the first of which confirmed that the word length was present with forward recall and absent with backward recall. In addition, age effects were stronger in backward recall than in forward recall. In the second experiment, an item-order
trade-off methodology was utilized with backward recall.
When order memory was required, there was no word length
effect and strong age effects. When memory was tested via an
item recognition test, there was a reverse word length effect and no age effect. While word length effects can be interpreted within the item-order framework, age effects cannot