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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.


Descendant of: digit span task

Definition contributed by MLewis about a week ago.

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Task Contrasts

subject groups


length of longest correct sequence


Task Indicators

accuracy


number of digits



Task records: 2  
working memory
  • length of longest correct sequence
  
phonological working memory
  • length of longest correct sequence
  
Descendant of:
digit span task




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Revision 2

Definition contributed by BGregory about two years ago:
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.

Revision 1

Definition contributed by SAdministrator about three years ago:
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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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