Keyword

working memory capacity

Description: Working memory capacity is the limited amount of information a person can temporarily maintain and manipulate for reasoning, attention, and goal-directed tasks.

Primary topic: Cognitive Abilities and Testing (21%)

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Individual differences in working memory and reading

1980 · Meredyth Daneman, Patricia A. Carpenter · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 6,330

A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory.

1992 · Marcel A. Just, Patricia A. Carpenter · Psychological Review · 4,149

Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable approach.

1999 · Randall W. Engle, Stephen W. Tuholski, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 3,077

Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide

2005 · Andrew R. A. Conway, Michael J. Kane, et al. · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2,880

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Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention

2002 · Randall W. Engle · Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2,503

Is working memory capacity task dependent?

1989 · Marilyn L Turner, Randall W Engle · Journal of Memory and Language · 2,298

In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning

2003 · Jonathan St.B.T. Evans · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2,258

The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective

2002 · Michael J. Kane, Randall W. Engle · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2,227

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EXPERT AND EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE: Evidence of Maximal Adaptation to Task Constraints

1996 · K. A. Ericsson, A. C. Lehmann · Annual Review of Psychology · 2,136

Expert performance: Its structure and acquisition.

1994 · K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness · American Psychologist · 2,075

An automated version of the operation span task

2005 · Nash Unsworth, Richard P. Heitz, et al. · Behavior Research Methods · 1,858

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Reasoning ability is (little more than) working-memory capacity?!

1990 · Patrick C. Kyllonen, Raymond E. Christal · Intelligence · 1,810

Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference.

2003 · Michael J. Kane, Randall W. Engle · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,725

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The Generality of Working Memory Capacity: A Latent-Variable Approach to Verbal and Visuospatial Memory Span and Reasoning.

2004 · Michael J. Kane, David Z. Hambrick, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,678

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Children's Reading Comprehension Ability: Concurrent Prediction by Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Component Skills.

2004 · Kate Cain, Jane Oakhill, et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1,492

The relationships among working memory, math anxiety, and performance.

2001 · Mark H. Ashcraft, Elizabeth P. Kirk · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,437

A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity.

2001 · Michael J. Kane, M. Kathryn Bleckley, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,413

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Increased prefrontal and parietal activity after training of working memory

2003 · Pernille J Olesen, Helena Westerberg, et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 1,317

The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

2007 · Nash Unsworth, Randall W. Engle · Psychological Review · 1,306

Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence

2003 · Andrew R.A. Conway, Michael J. Kane, et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 1,216

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Individual differences in syntactic processing: The role of working memory

1991 · Jonathan King, Marcel Adam Just · Journal of Memory and Language · 1,191

Cognitive load theory, educational research, and instructional design: some food for thought

2009 · Ton de Jong · Instructional Science · 1,172

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Grammatical processing in language learners

2006 · HARALD CLAHSEN, CLAUDIA FELSER · Applied Psycholinguistics · 1,153

Converging evidence that stereotype threat reduces working memory capacity.

2003 · Toni Schmader, Michael Johns · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,111

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

2002 · Andrew R.A Conway, Nelson Cowan, et al. · Intelligence · 1,108

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