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span task  

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  • Method for measuring the storage capacity of short-term memory or working memory. Span is the highest number of items that the subject is able to recall immediately, usually in the order in which the items were presented.

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  • memory span task

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  • • Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 87–114. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X01003922

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Jacobs, J. (1887). Experiments on "prehension". Mind, (45), 75–79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2246990

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two : Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63(2), 81‑97. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043158

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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