Working memory (WM) is the ability to transiently maintain and manipulate internal
representations beyond its external availability to the senses. This process is thought to …

We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish
and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling …

Cognition occurs by virtue of neural processes, and likewise, the aging of cognition is rooted
in the effects of age on neural structures and functions. The methods of cognitive …

Aging adults experience declines in working memory and episodic memory, however, it is
unclear how these declines operate over time. Decreased working memory may be …

Proactive interference occurs when information from the past disrupts current processing
and is a major source of confusion and errors in short-term memory (STM; Wickens, Born, & …

A simple experimental arrangement is designed to foil verbal rehearsal during an extended
(from 5 to 30 s) retention interval across which participants attempt to discriminate two …

The interest of scientists in examining the psychological, perceptual, and cognitive methods
developed by magicians can be traced back over a hundred years (Binet, 1894; Jastrow …

Multi-store models of working memory (WM) have given way to more dynamic approaches
that conceive WM as an activated subset of long-term memory (LTM). The resulting …

Many aspects of the neuroscience of time and number (NEUTIN), as well as its associated
psychophysics, have objective, absolute qualities reminiscent of Newtonian physics. For …

Humans have long been interested in understanding how we process or encode
information, how we store information, and how we retrieve information, the venerable …