Abstract
The present study examined the word length effects in order reconstruction tasks conducted immediately after presentation of a 6-word list and 14 seconds later. The results indicated that reconstruction was more accurate for short words than for long words in the immediate condition, whereas no word length effect was found in the delay condition. These results suggest that the phonological representations in order memory decayed in the delay condition. These findings are discussed in terms of a functional distinction between short-term and long-term memory systems.
