Working memory is one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology. The
cognitive revolution that introduced the computer metaphor to describe human cognitive …

Recent theoretical development of working memory has emphasized the role of attention in
several active processes supporting maintenance. Although this development is certainly …

When holding information in working memory, the proportion of time occupied by a
concurrent task determines memory performance. This effect, the cognitive load effect, has …

There is a theoretical disagreement in the working memory literature, with some proposing
that the storage and processing of information rely on distinct parts of the cognitive system …

One way of maintaining information in working memory is through attentional refreshing, a
process that was recently shown to be independent from verbal rehearsal. In the classical …

Understanding the factors that make working memory (WM) traces stable over time is
important because WM is the keystone of general cognitive achievement. Two views of …

Working memory (WM) is a cognitive system allowing short-term maintenance and
processing of information. Maintaining information in WM consists, classically, in rehearsing …

One of the functions that attention may serve in working memory (WM) is boosting
information accessibility, a mechanism known as attentional refreshing. Refreshing is …

There is still a strong debate in the working memory literature about the cause of forgetting,
with many articles providing evidence for the existence of temporal decay and as many …

When motivated, people can keep nonrecent items in a list active during the presentation of
new items, facilitating fast and accurate recall of the earlier items. It has been proposed that …