diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 38db0dc..2428592 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ **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: @@ -89,13 +89,13 @@ and the complex span: - 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