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Preferred term

Corsi task

Definition(s)

Corsi's test (1972) is an example of a spatial span task. Nine cubes are presented to the subject. The experimenter points to the cubes with increasingly longer sequences (2-8 positions). The subject's task is to immediately reproduce the sequence in the same or reversed order. After two failures in a series of the same level, the test is stopped.

Broader concept(s)

Narrower concept(s)

Walking Corsi Test

Related concept(s)

memory span

Synonym(s)

Corsi block tapping test
Corsi block task
Corsi test

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Bibliographic citation(s)

• Corsi, P. (1972). Human memory and the medial temporal region of the brain. McGraw Hill University. http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=93903&local_base=GEN01-MCG02
[Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
• Fournier, M., & Albaret, J.-M. (2015). Étalonnage des blocs de Corsi sur une population d’enfants scolarisés du CP à la 6e: Développements, n° 16-17(3), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.3917/devel.016.0076
[Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

Frank Arnould

Study method of

In other languages

épreuve de Corsi

French
tâche de Corsi
test de Corsi

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-G5BCPP16-S

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