Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide
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Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide.
Working memory (WM) span tasks-and in particular, counting span, operation span, and reading span tasks-are widely used measures of WM capacity. Despite their popularity, however, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of the merits of WM span tasks as measurement tools. Here, we review the genesis of these tasks and discuss how and why they came to be so influential. In so doing, we add...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196772