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TASK
Salthouse and Babcock Listening Span task
Participants listen to an experimenter read a set of sentences. The participant must simultaneously respond to comprehension questions, and record or remember the last word of each sentence. The measure of "listening span" is then the number of correct words recalled.

Definition contributed by CTorgerson about eight months ago.


Task records: 6  

acoustic processing
  • listening comprehension of participant minus average listening comprehension
 

auditory working memory
  • listening span of participant minus average listening span
 
  • listening comprehension of participant minus average listening comprehension
 

sentence comprehension
  • listening comprehension of participant minus average listening comprehension
 

divided attention
  • listening span with comprehension questions minus listening span without
 
  • listening comprehension with listening span task minus listening comprehension without
 


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Striatal dopamine and working memory.
Landau SM, Lal R, O'Neil JP, Baker S, Jagust WJ
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) (Cereb Cortex)
2009 Feb
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