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A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

A common short-term memory retrieval rate may describe many cognitive procedures

scientific article published on 07 March 2014

A consensus-based transparency checklist ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence

scientific article published in March 2002

A list-length constraint on incidental item-to-item associations

scientific article

A neural region of abstract working memory

scientific article

A preregistered replication and extension of the cocktail party phenomenon: One's name captures attention, unexpected words do not

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

A reappraisal of acute doses of benzodiazepines as a model of anterograde amnesia

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

A two-stage search of visual working memory: investigating speed in the change-detection paradigm

scientific article

Activation, attention, and short-term memory

scientific article

Adult age differences in working memory capacity: Spared central storage but deficits in ability to maximize peripheral storage

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Age differences in visual working memory capacity: not based on encoding limitations.

scientific article published on 18 June 2011

Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: dissociating chunk formation and capacity

scientific article

Alcohol effects on response inhibition: Variability across tasks and individuals

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

An adult model of preschool children's speech memory

scientific article published in November 1987

An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory

scholarly article

Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may develop

scientific article

Assessing Working Memory in Children: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children - Working Memory (CABC-WM).

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Assessing and Revising the Plan for Intelligence Testing

scientific article published on April 2014

Asymmetrical interference between item and order information in short-term memory

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Attending to items in working memory: evidence that refreshing and memory search are closely related

scientific article published on August 2015

Attention in working memory: attention is needed but it yearns to be free

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Attention to attributes and objects in working memory.

scientific article published on 20 August 2012

Auditory sensory ("echoic") memory dysfunction in schizophrenia

scientific article

Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Benchmarks provide common ground for model development: Reply to Logie (2018) and Vandierendonck (2018)

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Boosting long-term memory via wakeful rest: intentional rehearsal is not necessary, consolidation is sufficient

scientific article

Brief wakeful resting boosts new memories over the long term

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

Can auditory memory for tone pitch be rehearsed?

scientific article published on May 1995

Can the focus of attention accommodate multiple, separate items? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

Can we distinguish three maintenance processes in working memory?

scholarly article by Candice Coker Morey & Nelson Cowan published 26 July 2018 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Capacity limits in list item recognition: evidence from proactive interference.

scientific article published in April 2005

Central and peripheral components of working memory storage.

scientific article

Children With Dyslexia Benefit From Orthographic Facilitation During Spoken Word Learning.

scientific article published in August 2018

Children's working-memory processes: a response-timing analysis

scientific article published in March 2003

Chunk formation in immediate memory and how it relates to data compression

scientific article

Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: a reconciliation

scientific article

Co-existing, contradictory working memory models are ready for progressive refinement: Reply to Logie

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Cognitive control components and speech symptoms in people with schizophrenia ⬇️

scientific article published on February 22, 2012

Coherence of the irrelevant-sound effect: individual profiles of short-term memory and susceptibility to task-irrelevant materials

scientific article

Comment on "Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision".

scientific article published on February 2009

Constant capacity in an immediate serial-recall task: a logical sequel to Miller (1956).

scientific article published in September 2004

Contributions of filtering and attentional allocation to working memory performance in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Core verbal working-memory capacity: the limit in words retained without covert articulation

scientific article

Cross-Modal Decoding of Neural Patterns Associated with Working Memory: Evidence for Attention-Based Accounts of Working Memory

scientific article

Cross-modal, auditory-visual Stroop interference and possible implications for speech memory

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Decay theory of immediate memory: From Brown (1958) to today (2014).

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Deconfounding Serial Recall

Delaying interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients

scientific article

Detection of the number of changes in a display in working memory

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Development of Working Memory for Verbal-Spatial Associations.

scientific article published on August 2006

Development of the ability to combine visual and acoustic information in working memory

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Developmental change in the nature of attention allocation in a dual task

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Differences between presentation methods in working memory procedures: a matter of working memory consolidation

scientific article

Differential effects of alcohol on working memory: distinguishing multiple processes

scientific article

Do Bilingual Children Have an Executive Function Advantage? Results From Inhibition, Shifting, and Updating Tasks

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Do familiar memory items decay?

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Do we use visual codes when information is not presented visually?

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Domain-general and domain-specific functional networks in working memory.

scientific article

Dual-task costs in working memory: An adversarial collaboration

article published in 2018

EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY IN WORKING MEMORY DEVELOPMENT.

scientific article published on September 2016

EXPRESS: What Affects the Magnitude of Age-Related Dual-Task Costs in Working Memory? The Role of Stimulus Domain and Access to Semantic Representations

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

Echoic storage in infant perception

scientific article published in August 1982

Editorial: Representational states in memory: where do we stand?

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Electrophysiological evidence of developmental changes in the duration of auditory sensory memory

scientific article published on January 1999

Enhancement of 4-year-old children's memory span for phonologically similar and dissimilar word lists

scientific article published in February 1991

Estimating working memory capacity for lists of nonverbal sounds

scientific article

Evidence for spontaneous serial refreshing in verbal working memory?

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Experimental psychology generally, and the journal today

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Exploring age differences in visual working memory capacity: is there a contribution of memory for configuration?

scientific article

Flexible attention allocation to visual and auditory working memory tasks: manipulating reward induces a trade-off ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Flexible representations in visual working memory and interactions with long-term learning: Commentary on the special issue

scientific article published on 24 February 2019

Forgetting due to retroactive interference: a fusion of Müller and Pilzecker's (1900) early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia

scientific article

From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies

scientific article

George Miller's magical number of immediate memory in retrospect: Observations on the faltering progression of science

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Habituation to auditory distractors in a cross-modal, color-word interference task

scientific article published in May 2001

Healthy aging and visual working memory: The effect of mixing feature and conjunction changes.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

How Do Scientific Views Change? Notes From an Extended Adversarial Collaboration

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated?

scientific article

How does running memory span work?

scientific article

How to measure working memory capacity in the change detection paradigm

scientific article published on April 2011

How verbal memory loads consume attention

scientific article

Implications of aging, lexicality, and item length for the mechanisms underlying memory span

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Incidental learning of list membership is affected by serial position in the list

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Infant speech recognition in multisyllabic contexts

scientific article published on June 1984

Informed Guessing in Change Detection.

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Insights into spared memory capacity in amnestic MCI and Alzheimer's Disease via minimal interference

scientific article published on 17 January 2012

Interaction effects on common measures of sensitivity: choice of measure, type I error, and power

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Interactions between Transient and Long-Term Auditory Memory as Reflected by the Mismatch Negativity.

scientific article published in September 1996

Investigating the childhood development of working memory using sentences: new evidence for the growth of chunk capacity

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Is there a temporal basis of the word length effect? A response to Service (1998)

scientific article published in August 2000

Just lying there, remembering: improving recall of prose in amnesic patients with mild cognitive impairment by minimising interference

scientific article published in April 2005

Knowledge cannot explain the developmental growth of working memory capacity

scientific article

Learning in a unidimensional absolute identification task

scientific article published in October 2004

Life-span development of visual working memory: when is feature binding difficult?

scientific article

List composition and the word length effect in immediate recall: A comparison of localist and globalist assumptions ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

Loss of visual working memory within seconds: the combined use of refreshable and non-refreshable features

scientific article

Memory prerequisites of mismatch negativity in the auditory event-related potential (ERP).

scientific article published on July 1993

Memory-search and rehearsal processes and the word length effect in immediate recall: a synthesis in reply to service

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Mental Objects in Working Memory: Development of Basic Capacity or of Cognitive Completion?

scientific article

Merging with the path not taken: Wilhelm Wundt's work as a precursor to the embedded-processes approach to memory, attention, and consciousness

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Mismatch negativity in children and adults, and effects of an attended task

scientific article published in November 2000

Models of verbal working memory capacity: what does it take to make them work?

scientific article

Multiple concurrent thoughts: The meaning and developmental neuropsychology of working memory

scientific article

No recovery of memory when cognitive load is decreased

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Normal time course of auditory recognition in schizophrenia, despite impaired precision of the auditory sensory ("echoic") memory code

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Novel Word Learning in Children Who Are Bilingual: Comparison to Monolingual Peers

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Older adults do not notice their names: a new twist to a classic attention task

scientific article

On the Use of Response Chunking as a Tool to Investigate Strategies

scientific article

On the auditory modality superiority effect in serial recall: separating input and output factors.

scientific article published in May 2004

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

scientific article

Parietal-Occipital Interactions Underlying Control- and Representation-Related Processes in Working Memory for Nonspatial Visual Features.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Persistence of memory for ignored lists of digits: areas of developmental constancy and change

scientific article published in June 2000

Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue

scientific article published in April 2015

Process Overlap Theory and First Principles of Intelligence Testing

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Profound retroactive interference in anterograde amnesia: What interferes?

scientific article

RAPID COMMUNICATION Scalp-Recorded Optical Signals Make Sound Processing in the Auditory Cortex Visible?

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Reactivation of a Dormant Representation of an Auditory Stimulus Feature ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

Reasoning and memory: People make varied use of the information available in working memory

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Remembering complex objects in visual working memory: do capacity limits restrict objects or features?

scientific article

Rethinking speed theories of cognitive development. Increasing the rate of recall without affecting accuracy.

scientific article

Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults

scientific article

Searching for serial refreshing in working memory: Using response times to track the content of the focus of attention over time.

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Sensory memory and its role in information processing

scientific article published on January 1, 1995

Sensory-motor integration and brain lesions: Progress toward explaining domain-specific phenomena within domain-general working memory

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: a new hypothesis

scientific article published in May 2007

Sequential Memory in Children With and Without Language Impairment ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1995

Seven-year-olds allocate attention like adults unless working memory is overloaded.

scientific article

Short-term Memory in Childhood Dyslexia: Deficient Serial Order in Multiple Modalities.

scientific article published on 12 May 2017

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

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Short-term memory loss over time without retroactive stimulus interference

scientific article published on February 2008

Simple and Complex Working Memory Tasks Allow Similar Benefits of Information Compression

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Speech timing and verbal short-term memory: Evidence for contrasting deficits in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome

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Spoken Word Learning Differences Among Children With Dyslexia, Concomitant Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder, and Typical Development

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Storage and processing in working memory: Assessing dual task performance and task prioritization across the adult lifespan

Storage and processing in working memory: Assessing dual-task performance and task prioritization across the adult lifespan

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Talking backward: exceptional speech play in late childhood

scientific article published on 01 June 1982

Task experience and children's working memory performance: a perspective from recall timing.

scientific article published on May 2008

Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information

scientific article

The Dorsal Attention Network Reflects Both Encoding Load and Top-down Control during Working Memory

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why?

scientific article

The Nature of Verbal Short-Term Impairment in Dyslexia: The Importance of Serial Order

scientific article

The Role of Visual Stimuli in Cross-Modal Stroop Interference

scientific article

The Structure of Word Learning in Young School-Age Children

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

The Structure of Working Memory in Young Children and Its Relation to Intelligence

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: Attention and memory in the classic selective listening procedure of Cherry (1953) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1995

The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: how frequent are attention shifts to one's name in an irrelevant auditory channel?

scientific article

The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: the importance of working memory capacity

scientific article

The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: trade-offs between immediate and delayed deployment

scientific article

The development of auditory attention in children

scientific article

The development of categories at the semantics/syntax interface

The development of memory for ignored speech

scientific article published in October 1996

The developmental course of two children who could talk backward five years ago.

scientific article published in June 1987

The differential maturation of two processing rates related to digit span

scientific article published in March 1999

The focus of attention as observed in visual working memory tasks: making sense of competing claims

scientific article

The legend of the magical number seven

The magical number 4 in short-term memory: a reconsideration of mental storage capacity

scientific article (publication date: February 2001)

The many faces of working memory and short-term storage

scientific article

The nature of cross-modal color-word interference effects.

scientific article published in July 1998

The recall of information from working memory. Insights from behavioural and chronometric perspectives

scientific article published on January 2008

The role of attention in the development of short-term memory: age differences in the verbal span of apprehension.

scientific article published in September 1999

The role of large-scale memory organization in the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential

scientific article published in January 2001

The search for what is fundamental in the development of working memory.

scientific article

Theories of Working Memory: Differences in Definition, Degree of Modularity, Role of Attention, and Purpose

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Theory and Measurement of Working Memory Capacity Limits

Think before you speak: pauses, memory search, and trace redintegration processes in verbal memory span

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Time-based loss in visual short-term memory is from trace decay, not temporal distinctiveness

scientific article

Timed reactions to an object in apparent motion: Evidence on Cartesian and non-Cartesian perceptual hypotheses ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1995

Tone Series and the Nature of Working Memory Capacity Development

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Two cognitive systems simultaneously prepared for opposite events

scientific article published in November 1999

Two separate verbal processing rates contributing to short-term memory span ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Updating schematic emotional facial expressions in working memory: Response bias and sensitivity

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Use of internal consistency coefficients for estimating reliability of experimental task scores

scientific article

Verbal Memory Span in Children: Speech Timing Clues to the Mechanisms Underlying Age and Word Length Effects

Verbal recall in amnesiacs under conditions of diminished retroactive interference

scientific article published on 28 January 2004

Visual working memory deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease are due to both reduced storage capacity and impaired ability to filter out irrelevant information

scientific article

Visual working memory depends on attentional filtering

scientific article

Visual working memory is disrupted by covert verbal retrieval

scientific article

Wakeful rest benefits before and after encoding in anterograde amnesia

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?

scientific article

What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?

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What do people typically do between list items? The nature of attention-based mnemonic activities depends on task context

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

When do visual and verbal memories conflict? The importance of working-memory load and retrieval

scientific article

When does a good working memory counteract proactive interference? Surprising evidence from a probe recognition task

scientific article published on 19 March 2012

When visual and verbal memories compete: evidence of cross-domain limits in working memory

scientific article published in April 2004

With development, list recall includes more chunks, not just larger ones

scientific article

Word Learning Deficits in Children With Dyslexia

scientific article published on 07 April 2017

Working Memory Maturation: Can We Get at the Essence of Cognitive Growth?

scientific article published on March 2016

Working Memory Predicts New Word Learning Over and Above Existing Vocabulary and Nonverbal IQ

scientific article published in 2022

Working Memory Profiles of Children With Dyslexia, Developmental Language Disorder, or Both

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education

scientific article

Working memory

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Working memory and flexibility in awareness and attention

scientific article published on 26 April 2005

Working memory capacity for spoken sentences decreases with adult ageing: recall of fewer but not smaller chunks in older adults

scientific article published on October 2008

Working memory inefficiency: Minimal information is utilized in visual recognition tasks ⬇️

scientific article published on February 18, 2013

Working memory limits severely constrain long-term retention

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Working memory units are all in your head: Factors that influence whether features or objects are the favored units.

scientific article

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