Test for Number Memory

E dey measure your digit span: the longest line of digits wey you fit repeat back just after you see am. Digit span na one of the tests wey dem dey use pass to check short-term memory, the small place wey dey hold information for some seconds as you dey use am 1.

For clinic, dem dey usually read the digits loud, one every second. For here, all of dem go show for screen together for 1 seconds plus 0.6 seconds for each digit, so your score no be the same as score for clinic digit span test.

• The first number get 3 digits. Type am back and each correct answer go add one digit.
• You get 2 tries for each length. When you miss every try for one length, the test go end.
• Your score na the longest number wey you type back exactly correct.

For one well-known paper, George Miller point out say the limit of short-term memory depend on how many groups of information you hold, no be how many digits, and people fit stretch am by putting things together into bigger groups 2. To read 4-9-1-7 as "forty-nine, seventeen" na one way to group am. You fit use am, but use the same way every time so your scores fit compare well.

For one computer study of 763 adults wey age from 18 to 65, forward digit span (to repeat digits for the same order wey you hear am, as this page dey do) no change as age dey increase. Na only backward span, to repeat dem for reverse order, drop small as age dey increase. People wey get more years of education score small higher 1. Practice with the task, tiredness and distraction fit change am from one day to another too. One try na just one-time picture; several tries for different days go tell you more.

Other short-term memory tests for this site: test for sequence memory (the order of places for grid) and N-back test(English) (to hold things for mind as dem dey change).