jan 1, 1980 - Daneman & Carpenter

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Reading & Listening Span
- Measure of WM span
- Participants had to read sentences + remember the final words in the correct order\
- Both a processing + a memory task
- Number of words remembered varies between people
- Seems to correlate with language comprehension (better than digit/word span)
- Taken as a measure of general working memory capacity

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