The relation between attention and memory

N Cowan, C Bao… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for
understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental …

Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

K Oberauer, S Lewandowsky, E Awh… - Psychological …, 2018‏ - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

What limits working memory capacity?

K Oberauer, S Farrell, C Jarrold… - Psychological …, 2016‏ - psycnet.apa.org
We review the evidence for the 3 principal theoretical contenders that vie to explain why and
how working memory (WM) capacity is limited. We examine the possibility that capacity …

Theories of working memory: Differences in definition, degree of modularity, role of attention, and purpose

EJ Adams, AT Nguyen, N Cowan - Language, speech, and hearing …, 2018‏ - pubs.asha.org
Purpose The purpose of this article is to review and discuss theories of working memory with
special attention to their relevance to language processing. Method We begin with an …

Working memory maturation: Can we get at the essence of cognitive growth?

N Cowan - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The theoretical and practical understanding of cognitive development depends on working
memory, the limited information temporarily accessible for such daily activities as language …

Short-term memory based on activated long-term memory: A review in response to Norris (2017).

N Cowan - 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Short-term memory (STM), the limited information temporarily in a state of
heightened accessibility, includes just-presented events and recently retrieved information …

An embedded-processes approach to working memory

N Cowan, CC Morey… - Working memory: State of …, 2021‏ - books.google.com
The embedded-processes model (Cowan, 1988, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005/2016, 2019) is a
simple, graphic, and conceptual model of how information is processed in the human mind …

The roles of attention, executive function and knowledge in cognitive ageing of working memory

M Naveh-Benjamin, N Cowan - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Working memory is an ensemble of components that temporarily hold information in a
heightened state of availability for use in ongoing information processing. Working memory …

The structure of working memory in young children and its relation to intelligence

S Gray, S Green, M Alt, T Hogan, T Kuo… - Journal of memory and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This study investigated the structure of working memory in young school-age children by
testing the fit of three competing theoretical models using a wide variety of tasks. The best …

A multisensory perspective of working memory

M Quak, RE London, D Talsma - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Although our sensory experience is mostly multisensory in nature, research on working
memory representations has focused mainly on examining the senses in isolation. Results …