The role of short-term working memory in mental arithmetic

GJ Hitch - Cognitive Psychology, 1978 - Elsevier
… total load on working storage (ie, the number of stored … working memory and that forgetting
the value of the marker can result in either type of carrying error, according to its original value

The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource

PM Bays, RFG Catalao, M Husain - Journal of vision, 2009 - jov.arvojournals.org
… the target color value (T), corresponding to error in memory for … target color value (NT),
corresponding to errors in memory for … number of visual items that can be held in working memory, …

A neural measure of precision in visual working memory

EF Ester, DE Anderson, JT Serences… - Journal of cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Recent studies suggest that the temporary storage of visual detail in working memory is
mediated by sensory recruitment or sustained patterns of stimulus-specific activation within …

Variability in the quality of visual working memory

D Fougnie, JW Suchow, GA Alvarez - Nature communications, 2012 - nature.com
… variability in the precision of working memory. Both participants’ … AIC c values of 4.0 in favour
of the variable-precision model). … number of trials performed by a participant on the working

Effects of adult age on structural and operational capacities in working memory.

TA Salthouse, RL Babcock, RJ Shaw - Psychology and aging, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
… Accuracy of reporting the current value of the … the number of potentially relevant variables
(hypothesized to be sensitive to the structural capacity of working memory) and of the number

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 …

Verbal and visual-spatial working memory and mathematical ability in different domains throughout primary school

E Van de Weijer-Bergsma, EH Kroesbergen… - Memory & …, 2015 - Springer
… , the predictive value of visual-spatial working memory for … the predictive value of verbal
working memory increased. … which working memory load is manipulated by the number of …

Precision in visual working memory reaches a stable plateau when individual item limits are exceeded

DE Anderson, EK Vogel, E Awh - 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
… that resolution in working memory (WM) declines as the number of stored items increases. …
the nontarget values from the same trial. If subjects had consistently reported distractor values

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

N Cowan, JN Rouder, CL Blume, JS Saults - Psychological review, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
… on guessing alone is zi = 0 and the maximum possible value is ni, the number of presented
chunks in the ith list. Negative values of zi are permissible and correspond to below-chance …

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