Addressing the theory crisis in psychology

K Oberauer, S Lewandowsky - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A worrying number of psychological findings are not replicable. Diagnoses of the causes of
this “replication crisis,” and recommendations to address it, have nearly exclusively focused …

What limits working memory capacity?

K Oberauer, S Farrell, C Jarrold… - Psychological …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Clear evidence for item limits in visual working memory

KCS Adam, EK Vogel, E Awh - Cognitive psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a consensus that visual working memory (WM) resources are sharply limited, but
debate persists regarding the simple question of whether there is a limit to the total number …

Representation and computation in visual working memory

PM Bays, S Schneegans, WJ Ma, TF Brady - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

A resource-rational theory of set size effects in human visual working memory

R Van den Berg, WJ Ma - ELife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Encoding precision in visual working memory decreases with the number of encoded items.
Here, we propose a normative theory for such set size effects: the brain minimizes a …

Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits

S Schneegans, R Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Research into human working memory limits has been shaped by the competition between
different formal models, with a central point of contention being whether internal …

Diffusion theory of decision making in continuous report.

PL Smith - Psychological Review, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
I present a diffusion model for decision making in continuous report tasks, in which a
continuous, circularly distributed, stimulus attribute in working memory is matched to a …

An interference model for visual and verbal working memory.

K Oberauer, HY Lin - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on working memory (WM) has followed two largely independent traditions: One
concerned with memory for sequentially presented lists of discrete items, and the other with …

Resources masquerading as slots: Flexible allocation of visual working memory

C Donkin, A Kary, F Tahir, R Taylor - Cognitive psychology, 2016 - Elsevier
Whether the capacity of visual working memory is better characterized by an item-based or a
resource-based account continues to be keenly debated. Here, we propose that visual …

The present and future of neural interfaces

D Valeriani, F Santoro, M Ienca - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The 2020's decade will likely witness an unprecedented development and deployment of
neurotechnologies for human rehabilitation, personalized use, and cognitive or other …