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memory span

noun

  1. psychol the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“People have a short memory span,” Emily Yoshida, pop-culture editor at Grantland, tells The Daily Beast.

He had a memory span for digits of about eleven, as compared with the ordinary record of about eight.

In the case of letters he had an auditory memory span of nine, and a visual span of seven.

The memory span for unrelated objects is far too limited to permit us to grasp and retain that number of unrelated impressions.

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