Executive functions and self-regulation

W Hofmann, BJ Schmeichel, AD Baddeley - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Self-regulation is a core aspect of adaptive human behavior that has been studied, largely in
parallel, through the lenses of social and personality psychology as well as cognitive …

Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide

ARA Conway, MJ Kane, MF Bunting… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2005 - Springer
Working memory (WM) span tasks—and in particular, counting span, operation span, and
reading span tasks—are widely used measures of WM capacity. Despite their popularity …

[BOOK][B] Working memory capacity

N Cowan - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Is working memory training effective?

Z Shipstead, TS Redick, RW Engle - Psychological bulletin, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Working memory (WM) is a cognitive system that strongly relates to a person's ability to
reason with novel information and direct attention to goal-relevant information. Due to the …

Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience.

AP Jha, EA Stanley, A Kiyonaga, L Wong, L Gelfand - Emotion, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigated the impact of mindfulness training (MT) on working memory capacity (WMC)
and affective experience. WMC is used in managing cognitive demands and regulating …

The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

N Unsworth, RW Engle - Psychological review, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Studies examining individual differences in working memory capacity have suggested that
individuals with low working memory capacities demonstrate impaired performance on a …

Working memory and fluid intelligence: Capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval

N Unsworth, K Fukuda, E Awh, EK Vogel - Cognitive psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
Several theories have been put forth to explain the relation between working memory (WM)
and gF. Unfortunately, no single factor has been shown to fully account for the relation …

Conducting the train of thought: working memory capacity, goal neglect, and mind wandering in an executive-control task.

JC McVay, MJ Kane - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
On the basis of the executive-attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC; eg, MJ
Kane, ARA Conway, DZ Hambrick, & RW Engle, 2007), the authors tested the relations …

Why does working memory capacity predict variation in reading comprehension? On the influence of mind wandering and executive attention.

JC McVay, MJ Kane - Journal of experimental psychology: general, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 144 (3) of Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General (see record 2015-24174-004). The values in Table 2 …

Working memory and executive attention: A revisit

RW Engle - Perspectives on psychological science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this follow-up to my 2002 article on working memory capacity, fluid intelligence, and
executive attention in Current Directions in Psychological Science, I review even more …