I present an account of the origins and development of the multicomponent approach to
working memory, making a distinction between the overall theoretical framework, which has …

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 …

Virtually all theories agreed that if verbal short-term memory was characterized by any single
task, that task was digit span, with longer sequences of digits occupying more of the capacity …

This Classic Edition of the best-selling textbook offers an in-depth overview of approaches to
the study of memory. With empirical research from both the real world and the …

For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

Unexpected events are part of everyday experience. They come in several varieties—action
errors, unexpected action outcomes, and unexpected perceptual events—and they lead to …

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 …

Woodcock–Johnson IV (WJ IV; Schrank, McGrew, & Mather, 2014a) is a comprehensive, co-
normed psychoeducational assessment system that includes three test batteries: the …

A latent variable study examined whether different classes of working-memory tasks
measure the same general construct of working-memory capacity (WMC). Data from 270 …