The role of recollection and familiarity in visual working memory: A mixture of threshold and signal detection processes.

AP Yonelinas - Psychological review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Whether working memory reflects a thresholded recollection process whereby only a limited
number of items are maintained in memory, or a signal detection process in which each …

Attention in working memory: attention is needed but it yearns to be free

S Rhodes, N Cowan - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent theoretical development of working memory has emphasized the role of attention in
several active processes supporting maintenance. Although this development is certainly …

The forgotten history of signal detection theory.

JT Wixted - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Signal detection theory is one of psychology's most well-known and influential theoretical
frameworks. However, the conceptual hurdles that had to be overcome before the theory …

An embedded-processes approach to working memory

N Cowan, CC Morey… - Working Memory: The …, 2020 - books.google.com
The embedded-processes model (Cowan, 1988, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005/2016, 2019) is a
simple, graphic, and conceptual model of how information is processed in the human mind …

How do scientific views change? Notes from an extended adversarial collaboration

N Cowan, C Belletier, JM Doherty… - Perspectives on …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
There are few examples of an extended adversarial collaboration, in which investigators
committed to different theoretical views collaborate to test opposing predictions. Whereas …

The proportion of working memory items recoverable from long-term memory remains fixed despite adult aging.

A Forsberg, D Guitard, NR Greene… - Psychology and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
We explored whether long-term memory (LTM) retrieval is constrained by working memory
(WM) limitations, in 80 younger and 80 older adults. Participants performed a WM task with …

Adult age differences in working memory capacity: Spared central storage but deficits in ability to maximize peripheral storage.

NR Greene, M Naveh-Benjamin, N Cowan - Psychology and Aging, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
For the first time, we quantify capacities of working memory in young and older adults in a
dual-task situation, addressing whether older adults have diminished central or peripheral …

Change localization: A highly reliable and sensitive measure of capacity in visual working memory

C Zhao, E Vogel, E Awh - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 - Springer
The change detection paradigm has been a widely used approach for measuring capacity in
visual working memory (WM). In this task, subjects see an array of visual items, followed by a …

Feature binding in short-term memory and long-term learning

A Shimi, RH Logie - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In everyday experience, we encounter visual feature combinations. Some combinations are
learned to support object recognition, and some are arbitrary and rapidly changing, so are …

Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report

A Forsberg, EJ Adams, N Cowan - Developmental science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how visual working memory (WM) develops with age across the early
elementary school period (6–7 years), early adolescence (11–13 years), and early …