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Reading Span Test

A short term memory task created by Daneman and Carpenter (1980) enabling the measurement of the abilities of short term memory in its double function of processing and storing. In this test, the subject has to read a series of sentences and judge if they are correct or not whilst at the same time memorising the last word of each one of them in order to remember them later.

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