There is broad agreement that working memory is closely related to attention. This article
delineates several theoretical options for conceptualizing this link, and evaluates their …

Any mature field of research in psychology—such as short-term/working memory—is
characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to …

We review the evidence for the 3 principal theoretical contenders that vie to explain why and
how working memory (WM) capacity is limited. We examine the possibility that capacity …

Working memory (WM) and attention have been studied as separate cognitive constructs,
although it has long been acknowledged that attention plays an important role in controlling …

Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of
information in view of its on-going processing. Lying at the centre of cognition, it has become …

Working memory is usually defined in cognitive psychology as a system devoted to the
simultaneous processing and maintenance of information. However, although many models …

As Cowan (2017) convincingly showed in a recent review, although WM is for psychological
science a relatively new concept that only emerged in the late fifties of the last century …

We present a review of frequency effects in memory, accompanied by a theory of memory,
according to which the storage of new information in long-term memory (LTM) depletes a …

Background Despite the potential of captioned videos, limited attention has been paid to the
role of vocabulary knowledge (VK) and working memory (WM) in incidental vocabulary …

This work takes a historical approach to discussing Brown's (1958) paper,“Some Tests of the
Decay Theory of Immediate Memory”. This work was and continues to be extremely …