memory span

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

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

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

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