Sometimes working memory is also called short-term memory since it. Results suggest that response learners, who putatively display more grey matter and activity in the caudate nucleus, are associated with better working memory span, cognitive control and attentional disengagement. Digit Span includes three tasks: Forward, Backward, and Sequencing. The digit span test allows us to better understand the effectiveness of working memory. forward and backward digit span tasks tap different cognitive abilities that. Results revealed that response learners showed significantly higher working memory capacity, more efficient attention disengagement and better cognitive control. METHOD: The Wechsler Digit Span Task was used to investigate verbal working. Fifty participants completed the 4/8 virtual maze to assess navigational strategy, the forward and backward visual digit span and the Attention Network Test - Revised to assess both attention disengagement and cognitive control. included a digit span test in the Stanford revision of the BinetSimon scales, but in T erman’ s version, digit sequences both forward and backward were administered. Also, there is a negative correlation between Backward Digit Recall Test. were presented (forward digit span) and the total number of digits the patient could. Naming Test and both Forward Spatial Span Test and Backward Digit Recall Test. This study therefore aimed to investigate whether response learners would display better performance on tests of executive and attention functioning compared to spatial learners. Digit Span Test The Digit Span Test is a subtest of WAIS-R and the. The caudate nucleus is involved in executive functions such as working memory, cognitive control and certain aspects of attention such as attentional disengaging. Spontaneous use of the response strategy is associated with greater activity and grey matter within the caudate nucleus while the spatial strategy is associated with greater activity and grey matter in the hippocampus. Hippocampus-dependent spatial strategy consists of creating a cognitive map of an environment and caudate nucleus-dependent response strategy consists of memorizing a rigid sequence of turns. One of two memory systems can be used to navigate in a new environment. Increased flanker task and forward digit span performance in caudate-nucleus-dependent response strategies.

Forward digit span test