memory span

noun

1. psychol the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items

Example Sentences

“People have a short memory span,” Emily Yoshida, pop-culture editor at Grantland, tells The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

He had a memory span for digits of about eleven, as compared with the ordinary record of about eight.

From Project Gutenberg

In the case of letters he had an auditory memory span of nine, and a visual span of seven.

From Project Gutenberg

The memory span for unrelated objects is far too limited to permit us to grasp and retain that number of unrelated impressions.

From Project Gutenberg