Observations that participants could do two tasks at once, such as focusing on a digit-span task while comprehending a paragraph, challenged the conceptualization of
a. the phonological similarity effect.
b. short-term memory.
c. the persistence of vision.
d. the physiological approach to coding.
Answer: b. short-term memory.
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