

Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology (H. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 17, 74–83.Įbbinghaus, H. Clock drawing errors in dementia: Neuropsychological and neuroanatomic considerations. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. Application des méthodes nouvelles au diagnostic du niveau intellectuel chez des enfants normaux et anormaux d’hospice et d’école primaire. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īINET A and SIMON T. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In the nineteenth century, Herman Ebbinghaus (1850–1909 1885/ 1964 cited in Richardson 2007) was the first cognitive scientist to show how span could be used as an experimental paradigm to. He termed this capacity the span of apperception (see JTE Richardson’s paper: Measurements of short-term memory: A historical review. Leibniz suggested that individuals have a finite capacity to prospectively process or hold in mind the information from the environment. The origins of digit span as a psychological construct date back to the work of Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716). First and foremost, digit span, along with reaction time, may be viewed as one of the two original paradigms used by experimental psychologists to investigate cognition. The term digit span refers both to several important psychological constructs and the names of tests designed to measure these constructs.
