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 …

Working memory and intelligence: The same or different constructs?

PL Ackerman, ME Beier, MO Boyle - Psychological bulletin, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Several investigators have claimed over the past decade that working memory (WM) and
general intelligence (g) are identical, or nearly identical, constructs, from an individual …

Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: the contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference.

MJ Kane, RW Engle - Journal of experimental psychology: General, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Individual differences in working-memory (WM) capacity predicted performance on the
Stroop task in 5 experiments, indicating the importance of executive control and goal …

[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 …

The generality of working memory capacity: a latent-variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning.

MJ Kane, DZ Hambrick, SW Tuholski… - Journal of …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
A latent-variable study examined whether verbal and visuospatial working memory (WM)
capacity measures reflect a primarily domain-general construct by testing 236 participants in …

Executive functions and achievements in school: Shifting, updating, inhibition, and working memory

HL St Clair-Thompson… - Quarterly journal of …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Links have recently been established between measures of educational attainment and both
verbal and visuo-spatial aspects of working memory. Relationships have also been …

Executive attention, working memory capacity, and a two-factor theory of cognitive control

RW Engle, MJ Kane - Psychology of learning and motivation, 2004 - books.google.com
This paper is about the nature of working memory capacity (WMC), and it will address the
nature of WMC limitations, their eVects on higher order cognitive tasks, their relationship to …

On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes

N Cowan, EM Elliott, JS Saults, CC Morey, S Mattox… - Cognitive …, 2005 - Elsevier
Working memory (WM) is the set of mental processes holding limited information in a
temporarily accessible state in service of cognition. We provide a theoretical framework to …

Sequential sampling models in cognitive neuroscience: Advantages, applications, and extensions

BU Forstmann, R Ratcliff… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Sequential sampling models assume that people make speeded decisions by gradually
accumulating noisy information until a threshold of evidence is reached. In cognitive …

Working memory and mathematics in primary school children: A meta-analysis

I Friso-Van den Bos, SHG Van der Ven… - Educational research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Working memory, including central executive functions (inhibition, shifting and updating) are
factors thought to play a central role in mathematical skill development. However, results …