memory span
Britishnoun
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For instance, there is a famous case of the British classical musician Clive Wearing who, because of encephalitis, is said to have the memory span of a goldfish.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2017
This is meager compared to a cat, whose memory span lasts for 16 hours.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
And while a puppy’s memory span is no longer than 30 seconds, the adult dog can remember for 5 minutes.
From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015
What is the memory span of moviegoers these days?
From Time Magazine Archive
In languages as diverse as Welsh, Arabic, Chinese, English and Hebrew, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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