Reading-Span tests score working-memory capacity by final-word recall after plausibility judgments

Evidence

WMC was assessed by means of the computerized version of the Reading-Span test (Rönnberg et al. 1989 ). Individual sentences were presented in three parts on a computer screen to be read aloud and judged as plausible or implausible. After three to six sentences, either the first or last word of each of the sentences had to be recalled. WMC corresponded to the number of correctly recalled words in any order. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1138

Categorization

• DEFINE: Describes the Reading-Span task procedure, the operational measure of WMC used throughout the study.