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Reading span task

The reading span task (RST) is a common memory span task widely cited in, and adapted for, investigations of working memory, cognitive processing, and reading comprehension that was first published by Meredyth Daneman and Patricia Carpenter in 1980. It is a verbal working memory test.

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Reading span task

Nodes7
Edges6
Triples4
Avg. degree1.71
Density0.285714
Components1

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Reading span task

Top relations

related to Original · 4
Reading span task → It, RST, The, With

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Important terminology

span reading rst original task memory working word comprehension daneman carpenter test variants series processing first verbal problems participants sentences

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Reading span taskrelated to OriginalThe0.60section
Reading span taskrelated to OriginalRST0.60section
Reading span taskrelated to OriginalWith0.60section
Reading span taskrelated to OriginalIt0.60section

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