Tasks. Some preliminary investigations tended to show that blocks ar likely to occur in
homogeneous tasks, and those having a high degree tinuity. Moreover, since the length of a …

Research on short-term memory (STM) provides a particularly good example of the fruitful
interaction of neuropsychology with techniques and theories developed in the study of …

In the 1880s Joseph Jacobs, a London schoolmaster with an interest in the new science of
psychology wanted to have a measure of the individual differences among the mental …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 37 (3) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2011-08992-004) …

We assessed a hypothesis that working memory capacity should include a constant number
of separate mental units, or chunks (cf. Miller, 1956). Because of the practical difficulty of …

Two experiments investigated whether young and old adults can temporarily remove
information from a capacity-limited central component of working memory (WM) into another …

The present experiments were designed to test a cognitive operations hypothesis of the
generation effect, or memorial advantage for stimuli that are generated rather than simply …

Cross-sectional and incremental age effects on cognitive processes that underlie individual
differences in components of working memory (WM; phonological loop, visual-spatial …

An important body of evidence has shown that reading comprehension ability is related to
working memory and, in particular, to the success in Daneman and Carpenter's (1980) …

Working memory plays an essential role in complex cognition. Every day cognitive tasks-
such as reading a newspaper article, calculating the appropriate amount to tip in a …