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 …

The finding that visual processing of a word correlates with the number of its letters has an
extensive history. In healthy subjects, a variety of methods, including perceptual thresholds …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Traditional accounts of verbal short-term memory explain differences in performance for
different types of verbal material by reference to inherent characteristics of the verbal items …

It has previously been demonstrated that enactment (ie, performing representative gestures
during encoding) enhances memory for concrete words, in particular action words. Here, we …

Previous research has claimed that working memory (WM) updating is one of three primary
central executive processes, and the only one to reliably predict fluid intelligence. However …

A common assumption in theories of working memory is that a maintenance process–
broadly referred to as rehearsal–is involved in kee** novel information available. This …

The ability to keep working memory content up to date is vital for a number of higher
cognitive functions such as navigation and reasoning, but it is also crucial for the effective …

Theories of working memory often disagree on the relationships between processing and
storage, particularly on how heavily they rely on an attention-based limited resource. Some …

Many experimental studies have investigated the relationship between the acquisition of
reading and working memory in a unidirectional way, attempting to determine to what extent …