--- title: "How to pronounce \"memory span\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"memory span\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/CQlTmOFM4Qs/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/memory-span" --- # How to pronounce "memory span" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/mɛmɒrɪspæn/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **me·mo·ry·span** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "memory span" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "paradigm that I described before, giving people drugs to increase their baseline levels of dopamine above their initial starting point of short or long-term memory span capacity. And then had people perform different types of working memory tasks that tap into two different aspects of attention and working memory. Up until now we've been talking about working memory as kind of just one thing. But working memory actually involves two things or" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 50:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=3034s) ### Example 2 > "during working memory tasks correlates very strongly with capacity to perform working memory task. Lower dopamine, lower working memory span, as it's called. Higher dopamine, higher working memory span. Okay, so next we're going to do another working memory task, different than the one we did earlier." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 36:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2163s) ### Example 3 > "prefrontal cortex perhaps might be. Now, I say perhaps might be because I don't want to cause any unnecessary alarm if for instance, you fall into the low working memory span group. In fact, if you fall into the low working memory span group, there are actually some terrific tools that you can use to improve dopamine transmission in those pathways and improve your working memory. I also don't want people to get the impression that somehow performance" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 37:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2250s) ### Example 4 > "thereafter. Now, the findings that I just described complement what I said before, which is the naturally occurring experiment. Bring people into the lab, measure their working memory span, look at how much dopamine they make. Higher dopamine, better working memory. Lower dopamine, lower working memory. The experiment I just described was one in which dopamine is introduced, showing that dopamine is very likely the rate-limiting, or the capacity-limiting," - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 34:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2041s) ### Example 5 > "and some in some cases all of those subjects have their brains imaged for the amount of dopamine available for release in their prefrontal cortex that short working memory span correlates with lower amounts of dopamine whereas higher working memory span or longer working memory span whatever you want to call it correlates with more dopamine available for release in the prefrontal cortex. Now this is where things get really" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2661s) ### Example 6 > "interesting and frankly really exciting for everybody especially the folks in the low working memory span group. Work from Marcus Bizzito and colleagues at UC Berkeley as well as other laboratories have explored the consequences of increasing dopamine levels in the brain of" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2683s) ### Example 7 > "getting six of the final words of those six sentences, well then of course they couldn't improve their performance anymore. But many of the people in the high working memory span group of course only remembered four, in some cases three. Typically it would be four, five, or six of the final words of those sentences. When they took bromocriptine at low or moderate doses, their working memory did not improve" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 48:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=2896s) ### Example 8 > "and protocols to modulate dopamine levels, all of that can be found at hubermanlab. com. Okay, so let's say you have a short working memory span or a moderate working memory span and you want to experiment with increasing levels of dopamine for sake of improving working memory. Now, there are a lot of different ways that one could imagine doing that. Let's start with the behavioral tools known to increase dopamine stores. That is, shown in" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 57:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=3427s) ### Example 9 > "earlier, increases dopamine. It does so in about 90 minutes. It achieves peak levels of dopamine in about 90 minutes and improves working memory in individuals that start off with a low working memory span and we know from neuroimaging, those are the individuals with lower baseline levels of dopamine. So, should you run out and ask your doctor for bromocriptine? Maybe. Most doctors won't prescribe bromocriptine for that reason." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 83:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs&t=5008s) ### Example 10 > "mental speed and memory span. So, your score on an IQ test, for instance, is to some extent related to" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 29:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDznzrNymE&t=1796s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [memory](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/memory), [span](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/span) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "memory span" correctly? "memory span" is pronounced `/mɛmɒrɪspæn/`. Syllable breakdown: **me·mo·ry·span**. ### What does "memory span" mean in context? 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