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TASK
Forward digit span task
A method of short-term memory measurement in which a person listens to someone say a series of single-digit numbers and must repeat them back in the same order they were given.

Definition contributed by BGregory about two years ago.

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working memory
  • length of longest correct sequence
 

phonological working memory
  • length of longest correct sequence
 


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Verbal working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives: evidence from the digit span task.
Conklin HM, Curtis CE, Katsanis J, Iacono WG
(Am J Psychiatry)
2000 Feb
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