In psychology and neuroscience, memory span is the longest list of items that a person can repeat back in correct order immediately after presentation...

people have a memory span of about seven items for numbers, the same for letters that sound dissimilar and short words. The memory span is projected to...

alternatives. The second cognitive limitation Miller discusses is memory span. Memory span refers to the longest list of items (e.g., digits, letters, words)...

working memory. Other suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is...

The reading span task (RST) is a common memory span task widely cited in, and adapted for, investigations of working memory, cognitive processing, and...

short-term memory. Short-term memory capacity is often called memory span, in reference to a common measurement procedure. In a memory span test, the experimenter...

legend that goldfish only had a memory span of three seconds and were able to prove that goldfish had a longer memory span than commonly believed. The experiment...

hypothesis of constant information would require (see also, memory span). The span of immediate memory seems to be almost independent of the number of bits per...

processing may function as a holding mechanism in immediate memory tasks. The working memory span is a behavioural measure of "exceptional consistency" and...

variations in memory span among their participants. In support they found that averaging repeated estimates of those with lower memory spans showed greater...

more accurate model of primary memory (often referred to as short-term memory). Working memory splits primary memory into multiple components, rather...

reading span subjects who had the best verbal working memory, they were overall faster than the low reading span subjects. Within the high reading span subjects...

important role in the brain for forming and remembering memories, and for having a long-term memory span, but in 1953 (when Molaison had the surgery) this was...

visual or spatial memory. For example, the visual patterns test (VPT) measures visual span whereas the Corsi Blocks Task measures spatial span. Correlational...

has on attention span. A study was done in 2024 that found that students who consistently watch short-term videos struggle with memory-based academic work...

as a memory. Maintenance rehearsal is a type of memory rehearsal that is useful in maintaining information in short-term memory or working memory. Because...

the 2005 ITV documentary The Man with the 7 Second Memory (although Wearing's short-term memory span can be up to 30 seconds). He was also featured in...

digit span task, but instead of the verbal form of the Digit Span, it required the use of visuo-spatial memory.. This number is known as the Corsi Span, and...

recall, the modality effect is seen in an increased memory span for auditorally presented lists. Memory span is defined as the maximum number of items that...

properties of the chunks. Memory span varies; it is lower for multisyllabic words than for shorter words. In general, the memory span for verbal contents i...

from the previously learned lists. Span performance refers to working memory capacity. It is hypothesized that span performance is limited in language...

Binet–Simon had multiple memory span digit tests spread over different age groups.For example, Yerkes and Bridges took all those memory span digit tests and created...

loop to mediate performance of the “visual” memory task. Between the ages of 5 and 11, visual memory span increases substantially and it is at this point...

memories were unable to be stored into long-term memory and that there would be a very short attention span, as first gleaned from patient Henry Molaison...

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash...

with memory span have been conducted by George Miller in 1956 that indicated, "Most common number of items that can be stored in the working memory is five...

Vision span or perceptual span is a controversial concept referring to the angular span (vertically and horizontally), within which the human eye has sharp...

deviations, while his digit span, or memory span for digits, grew to 80 digits, which was higher than the digit span for all memory experts previously recorded...

not affect word learning, short-term memory, vigilance, flicker fusion time, choice reaction time, memory span, or psychomotor coordination. In spite...

The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge...