Verbal and spatial immediate memory span: normative data from 1355 adults and 1112 children.
Norms are provided for verbal and visuo-spatial immediate memory span, two tasks widely used in the clinical assessment of short-term memory and its neurological disorders. Data have been collected from 1355 male and female adult subjects, with various educational backgrounds and a 20-99 years age range. Span shows a major decrement after the late sixties and is affected by educational level. Male subjects score better on the spatial task. Data collected from 1112 male and female children, 4-to-10 year-old, show that span increases with age and boys score better on the spatial test.
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012016:Reference Values; D014706:Verbal Learning