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 …

Videoconferencing (VC) is a type of online meeting that allows two or more participants from
different locations to engage in live multi-directional audio-visual communication and …

Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

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 …

Concerns about a lack of reproducibility of statistically significant results have recently been
raised in many fields, and it has been argued that this lack comes at substantial economic …

As smartphones increasingly pervade our daily lives, people are ever more interrupted by
alerts and notifications. Using both correlational and experimental methods, we explored …

The task-switching paradigm is being increasingly used as a tool for studying cognitive
control and task coordination. Different procedural variations have been developed. They …

Using email is one of the most common online activities in the world today. Yet, very little
experimental research has examined the effect of email on well-being. Utilizing a within …

Every day, billions of us receive smartphone notifications. Designed to distract, these
interruptions capture and monetize our time and attention. Though smartphones are …

This article introduces a new computational model for the complex-span task, the most
popular task for studying working memory. SOB-CS is a two-layer neural network that …