Visual short-term memory

Citation

Wilson JTL (1993) Visual short-term memory. In: Stachowiak F, De Bleser R, Deloche G G, Kaschel R, Kremin H, North P, Pizzamiglio L, Robertson I & Wilson B (eds.) Developments in the assessment and rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 107-110. http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/developments-in-the-assessment-and-rehabilitation-of-brain-damaged-patients-perspectives-from-a-european-concerted-action-pbEUNA14413/

Abstract
First paragraph: The most widely used neuropsychological measures of visuo-spatial short-term memory (STM) are the Corsi Test (Milner, 1971) and the Visual Span subtest from the revised Wechsler Memory Scale (Wechsler, 1987). Although these tasks have a visual component, sequencing ability is also important and may be one of the main skills emphasized by the tests. We wished to devise a measure of short-term visual memory which did not involve sequencing, but rather concerned representation of shapes and spatial relationships between items simultaneously present.