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 …

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 …

Chunking is the recoding of smaller units of information into larger, familiar units. Chunking
is often assumed to help bypassing the limited capacity of working memory (WM). We …

Memory for verbal material improves when words form familiar chunks. But how does the
improvement due to chunking come about? Two possible explanations are that the input …

Working Memory (WM) keeps information temporarily accessible for ongoing cognition.
Refreshing is a proposed mechanism to keep information active in WM, by bringing memory …

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 …

It is now firmly established that long-term memory knowledge, such as semantic knowledge,
supports the temporary maintenance of verbal information in Working Memory (WM). This …

Two proposals have been put forward to account conjointly for the spatial–numerical
association of response codes (SNARC) effect and the spatial–positional association of …

Several studies have demonstrated an influence of semantic knowledge on verbal working
memory (WM) performance, such as shown by the observation of semantic relatedness …

When encoding task-relevant information in working memory (WM), we can use prior
knowledge to facilitate task performance. For instance, when memorizing a phone number …