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Digit-Span Task
Digit-span tast is a task that is often used for measuring working-memory's storage capacity.
Participants are read a series of digits (e.g., '8, 3, 4') and must immediately repeat them back. If they do this successfully, they are given a slightlly longer list (e.g., '9, 2, 4, 0'), and so forth.
The length of the longest list a person can remember in this fashion is that person's digit span.
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