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movement span task  

Definition

  • Movement span is estimated by asking the subject to repeat movement sequences of increasing length performed by the experimenter. The movement span is the longest sequence that the subject is able to reproduce immediately.

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  • movement span test

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  • • Smyth, M. M., Pearson, N. A., & Pendleton, L. R. (1988). Movement and working memory: patterns and positions in space. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 40(3), 497–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724988843000041

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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