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symmetry span task  

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  • A visuo-spatial working memory span task. The subject is asked to remember the location of sequences of red squares placed in a matrix and to decide whether black squares arranged in an 8 x 8 matrix are symmetrical with respect to the vertical axis.

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  • • Kane, M. J., Hambrick, D. Z., Tuholski, S. W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T. W., & Engle, R. W. (2004). The generality of working memory capacity: A latent-variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(2), 189-217. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.133.2.189

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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