Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

I present an account of the origins and development of the multicomponent approach to
working memory, making a distinction between the overall theoretical framework, which has …

The article introduces an interference model of working memory for information in a
continuous similarity space, such as the features of visual objects. The model incorporates …

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …

The contralateral delay activity (CDA) is a negative slow wave sensitive to the number of
objects maintained in visual working memory (VWM). In recent years, a growing number of …

We review the evidence for the 3 principal theoretical contenders that vie to explain why and
how working memory (WM) capacity is limited. We examine the possibility that capacity …

For more than 50 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have recognized the importance
of a working memory to coordinate processing when multiple goals are active and to guide …

The lack of consensus on how to characterize humans' capacity for belief reasoning has
been brought into sharp focus by recent research. Children fail critical tests of belief …

Working memory capacity is traditionally treated as a unitary construct that can be explained
using one cognitive mechanism (eg, storage, attention control). Several recent studies have …

Virtually all theories agreed that if verbal short-term memory was characterized by any single
task, that task was digit span, with longer sequences of digits occupying more of the capacity …