11717 IUPAC Gold Book - digit span test 10.1351/goldbook.11717 11717 current synonym: digit span task 1 Test of memory in which numbers (series of digits) are presented orally or on a computer screen to a test subject who is asked to repeat each number from memory; the numbers increase in length until mistakes are made. In the backward digit span task the presented numbers must be recalled in reverse order. neurobehavior core test battery https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11925 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 862 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11717/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11717/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11717/plain Citation: 'digit span test' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11717 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-28T16:58:42+00:00