Summary of "Memory Could Link to Attention Span"

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In his article entitled “Memory Could Link to Attention Span”, Scarpa, S. (2003) said that researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are trying to find how much information a human being can memorize at any given moment. Nelson Cowan and Scott Sauls do the study for the working memory. They say this study would give cardinal information to educators. According to them, a working memory is the quantity of information a human hold in mind to complete a mental task. From their experiments, the human mind memorizes information by categorizing it into some logical order. The researchers found that adult could memorize more chunks of information than children by using test information which has no relationship by connected items together. Cowan asserts some general tips. Insubordination would not necessarily mean opposition on the group of students. Thus, the researchers state that children may have good attention span, if they have a good working memory.

References:
Scarpa, S (2003). Memory Could Link to Attention Span. Retrieved October 21, 2006, from http://www.districtadministration.com/