Working memory

A Baddeley - Memory, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… By varying the number of digits being held, it should be possible to vary the demand on this
limited- capacity system. If it did indeed reflect a working memory responsible for reasoning …

Working memory capacity, strategic allocation of study time, and value-directed remembering

MK Robison, N Unsworth - Journal of Memory and Language, 2017 - Elsevier
working memory capacity (WMC) and long-term memory (… in a self-regulated value-directed
remembering paradigm. … the number of words you recall multiplied by their value. The …

A matter of priorities: High working memory enables (slightly) superior value-directed remembering

ML Griffin, AS Benjamin, L Sahakyan… - Journal of Memory and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… are of high value. Across four experiments, we found that high working memory capacity led
… Chance points is the product of number of items recalled and the expected value of an item …

Separate capacities for storing different features in visual working memory.

B Wang, X Cao, J Theeuwes, CNL Olivers… - … : Learning, Memory …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
… the number of feature values between two, four, and six on one dimension, and the number
of feature values … Again, memory failures on the dimension with the fixed number of feature …

Value conditioning modulates visual working memory processes.

PMJ Thomas, L FitzGibbon… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
… Singleton value had nonsignificant effects on total dwell time, number of fixations, or the
probability of capturing the first fixation during WM encoding (all Fs ≤ 1.0). Singleton status, on …

Interactions among working memory, reinforcement learning, and effort in value-based choice: A new paradigm and selective deficits in schizophrenia

AGE Collins, MA Albrecht, JA Waltz, JM Gold… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
… However, a number of separable systems, such as working memory (WM) and reinforcement
learning (RL), contribute simultaneously to human learning. Identifying each system’s …

What limits working memory capacity?

K Oberauer, S Farrell, C Jarrold… - Psychological …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
… contenders that vie to explain why and how working memory (WM) capacity is limited. We …
reported values of Cowan’s K, an estimate of the number of items available in working memory

A meta-analysis of mathematics and working memory: Moderating effects of working memory domain, type of mathematics skill, and sample characteristics.

P Peng, J Namkung, M Barnes… - Journal of Educational …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
… or by relying on counting while simultaneously attending to regrouping demands and place
values. Thus, WM is thought to contribute to whole-number calculations because of the need …

Can children prioritize more valuable information in working memory? An exploration into the effects of motivation and memory load.

AL Atkinson, AH Waterman, RJ Allen - Developmental Psychology, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
… interaction between probe value and memory load, whereby larger probe value effects are
… were associated with the same number of points (the equal probe value condition). However…

Working memory capacity estimates moderate value learning for outcome-irrelevant features

I Ben-Artzi, R Luria, N Shahar - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
… in credit assignment mostly manipulated set-size (eg, number of arms in a multi-armed
bandit task), thus primarily demonstrating an effect of decay and noise on the representations of …