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**Working Memory** is a critical component of human cognition and can be defined as the ability to store and process information simultaneously.

A **complex span task** is the commonly used tool by researchers and practitioners to assess working memory capacity; it does so by interleaving
to-be-recalled material (e.g., digits or letters) with processing tasks (e.g., verbal, spatiovisual) . One example would be to have participants read a series of sentences and deciding whether they were correct
to-be-recalled material (e.g., digits, letters, visual patterns) with processing tasks (e.g., verbal, spatiovisual). One example would be to have participants read a series of sentences and deciding whether they were correct
while remembering the last word of each sentence for serial recall at the end of each trial (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980).

However, research and clinical settings currently face a few issues regarding the use of complex span tasks:
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- Feedback provided with each processing trial
- Processing block to repeat if cumulative score attained < 65%

- **Complex Span Practice**: Practice block containing arithmetic operations and to-be-recalled consonants
- **Complex Span Practice**: Practice block containing open-ended arithmetic operations and to-be-recalled consonants
- Consonant presented after each correctly-answered arithmetic operation (if incorrectly answered, a new arithmetic operation is presented)
- Set size of 2 only
- Feedback provided with each processing trial and each recall trial
- Block ends after 3 consecutive correct recall

- **Complex Span Task**: Test block containing arithmetic operations and to-be-recalled consonants
- **Complex Span Task**: Test block containing open-ended arithmetic operations and to-be-recalled consonants
- Consonant presented after each correctly-answered arithmetic operation (if incorrectly answered, a new arithmetic operation is presented)
- No feedback provided
- Start with set size of 2; set size increases by 1 with each correct recall
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