ArticlePsychological research2025
Optimizing working memory assessment: development of shortened versions of complex spans, updating, and binding tasks.
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- Assessment of Abbreviated Neurocognitive Tasks via a Custom-Built Mobile Platform.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- We are talking about WM as a broad ability factor! Comment on Burgoyne, Frank, and Macnamara (2024).Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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Given the lengthy administration of most working memory (WM) tasks, some researchers have developed reduced versions of these tests. However, they have focused primarily on complex spans. Recent studies suggested that estimating working memory capacity (WMC) using multiple tasks from different paradigms enhances measurement accuracy by isolating WMC variation from task- and paradigm-specific influences. Considering this, we evaluated whether complex spans, updating, and binding tasks could be shortened while maintaining robust psychometric properties. Participants completed full-length versions of tests from these paradigms, which were then segmented into early, intermediate, and later trial blocks. The shortened WM tasks were based on the early trial blocks. They accounted for most of the variance in a set of factor scores derived from the full-length versions of the WM tests (R
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