- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Working memory capacity, control, components and theory
- 1 Working memory
- 2 What do working memory span tasks like reading span really measure?
- 3 What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?
- 4 The time-based resource-sharing model of working memory
- 5 The ins and outs of working memory
- 6 Neural bases of focusing attention in working memory
- 7 Separating processing from storage in working memory operation span
- 8 The interpretation of temporal isolation effects
- 9 Working memory and short-term memory storage
- 10 Accounting for age-related differences in working memory using the feature model
- 11 Implications from cognitive neuropsychology for models of short-term and working memory
- 12 Top-down modulation in visual working memory
- 13 The general-purpose working memory system and functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- 14 Visuospatial rehearsal processes in working memory
- 15 Towards a multicomponent view of executive control
- 16 Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and is limited to four variables
- 17 A neural efficiency hypothesis of age-related changes in human working memory performance
- 18 Intersecting the divide between working memory and episodic memory
- 19 Activated long-term memory?
- 20 Activation, binding, and selective access
- 21 A hierarchical biased-competition model of domain-dependent working memory maintenance and executive control
- Index
What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?
What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?
- Chapter:
- (p.43) 3 What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?
- Source:
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory
- Author(s):
Nelson Cowan
Candice C. Morey
Zhijian Chen
Michael Bunting
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Working memory can be viewed as the collection of mental processes that preserve a limited amount of information in an especially accessible form, long enough for it to be of use in ongoing cognitive tasks. This chapter emphasises that working memory represents more than just general efficiency of information processing and is closely linked to the capacity of single, limited capacity attentional resource. It also demonstrates how working memory capacity differences may be assessed without the need for tasks that have two major components, processing and storage.
Keywords: working memory, information processing, attentional resource, cognitive tasks
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Working memory capacity, control, components and theory
- 1 Working memory
- 2 What do working memory span tasks like reading span really measure?
- 3 What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us?
- 4 The time-based resource-sharing model of working memory
- 5 The ins and outs of working memory
- 6 Neural bases of focusing attention in working memory
- 7 Separating processing from storage in working memory operation span
- 8 The interpretation of temporal isolation effects
- 9 Working memory and short-term memory storage
- 10 Accounting for age-related differences in working memory using the feature model
- 11 Implications from cognitive neuropsychology for models of short-term and working memory
- 12 Top-down modulation in visual working memory
- 13 The general-purpose working memory system and functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- 14 Visuospatial rehearsal processes in working memory
- 15 Towards a multicomponent view of executive control
- 16 Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and is limited to four variables
- 17 A neural efficiency hypothesis of age-related changes in human working memory performance
- 18 Intersecting the divide between working memory and episodic memory
- 19 Activated long-term memory?
- 20 Activation, binding, and selective access
- 21 A hierarchical biased-competition model of domain-dependent working memory maintenance and executive control
- Index
