The Digit Span Backwards Task

Listening to Mozart does not enhance backwards digit span performance.

Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky recently reported that exposure to brief periods of music by Mozart produced a temporary increase in performance on tasks taken from the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale-IV. The present study examined whether this effect occurred in performance on a backwards digit span task. In a within-subjects design 36 undergraduates were exposed to 10-min. periods of Mozart music, a...

Listening to Mozart 1 Running head: THE MOZART EFFECT Listening to Mozart Does Not Enhance Backwards Digit Span Performance

Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky recently reported that exposure to brief periods of music by Mozart produced a temporary performance increase in tasks taken from the StanfordBinet IQ measure. The present study examined whether this effect occurred on performance in a backwards digit span task. Thirty-six undergraduates were exposed to 10-min periods of Mozart music, a recording of rain, or silence in a ...

Verbal forward digit span in Spanish population.

BACKGROUND Older people complain of difficulties in recalling telephone numbers and being able to dial them in the correct order. This study examined the developmental trend of verbal forward digit span across adulthood and aging in a Spanish population, as an index of one of the components of Baddeley’s working memory model—the phonological loop—, which illustrates these two ...

P300 latency correlates with digit span.

The Diagnostic Value of the Audito-Vocal Digit Memory Span

menter. He had faith in the possibility of maintaining the constancy of conditions requisite for investigation of the higher thought processes, and to express the results numerically. Subsequently, he worked with children, and his findings indicate that the number of digits an individual can correctly recall increases with age. Smedley (3) reported in 1889 that among school children, memory spa...