Nelson Cowan

The search for what is fundamental in the development of working memory.

Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information.

Children's working-memory processes: a response-timing analysis.

List composition and the word length effect in immediate recall: a comparison of localist and globalist assumptions.

Verbal recall in amnesiacs under conditions of diminished retroactive interference.

On the auditory modality superiority effect in serial recall: separating input and output factors.

When visual and verbal memories compete: evidence of cross-domain limits in working memory.

Constant capacity in an immediate serial-recall task: a logical sequel to Miller (1956).

Learning in a unidimensional absolute identification task.

From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies.

Working memory and flexibility in awareness and attention.

Just lying there, remembering: improving recall of prose in amnesic patients with mild cognitive impairment by minimising interference.

Capacity limits in list item recognition: evidence from proactive interference.

On the capacity of attention: its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes.

When do visual and verbal memories conflict? The importance of working-memory load and retrieval.

Coherence of the irrelevant-sound effect: individual profiles of short-term memory and susceptibility to task-irrelevant materials.

Rethinking speed theories of cognitive development. Increasing the rate of recall without affecting accuracy.

Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: a reconciliation.

Visual working memory depends on attentional filtering.

How does running memory span work?

Life-span development of visual working memory: when is feature binding difficult?

Development of Working Memory for Verbal-Spatial Associations.

Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: a new hypothesis.

Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults.

How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated?

Forgetting due to retroactive interference: a fusion of Müller and Pilzecker's (1900) early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia.

Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: dissociating chunk formation and capacity.

A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory.

Differential effects of alcohol on working memory: distinguishing multiple processes.

What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?

An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory.

Task experience and children's working memory performance: a perspective from recall timing.

The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: trade-offs between immediate and delayed deployment.

Short-term memory loss over time without retroactive stimulus interference.

Working memory capacity for spoken sentences decreases with adult ageing: recall of fewer but not smaller chunks in older adults.

Core verbal working-memory capacity: the limit in words retained without covert articulation.

The recall of information from working memory. Insights from behavioural and chronometric perspectives.

Comment on "Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision".

Investigating the childhood development of working memory using sentences: new evidence for the growth of chunk capacity.

How verbal memory loads consume attention.

Delaying interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients.

Seven-year-olds allocate attention like adults unless working memory is overloaded.

Profound retroactive interference in anterograde amnesia: What interferes?

The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why?

Visual working memory deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease are due to both reduced storage capacity and impaired ability to filter out irrelevant information.

Visual working memory is disrupted by covert verbal retrieval.

Multiple concurrent thoughts: The meaning and developmental neuropsychology of working memory.

Loss of visual working memory within seconds: the combined use of refreshable and non-refreshable features.

With development, list recall includes more chunks, not just larger ones.

A neural region of abstract working memory.

Flexible attention allocation to visual and auditory working memory tasks: manipulating reward induces a trade-off.

The focus of attention as observed in visual working memory tasks: making sense of competing claims.

How to measure working memory capacity in the change detection paradigm.

Can the focus of attention accommodate multiple, separate items?

Age differences in visual working memory capacity: not based on encoding limitations.

Insights into spared memory capacity in amnestic MCI and Alzheimer's Disease via minimal interference.

Cognitive control components and speech symptoms in people with schizophrenia.

When does a good working memory counteract proactive interference? Surprising evidence from a probe recognition task.

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

Brief wakeful resting boosts new memories over the long term.

Attention to attributes and objects in working memory.

Estimating working memory capacity for lists of nonverbal sounds.

Working memory inefficiency: minimal information is utilized in visual recognition tasks.

A list-length constraint on incidental item-to-item associations.

Differences between presentation methods in working memory procedures: a matter of working memory consolidation.

A common short-term memory retrieval rate may describe many cognitive procedures.

Older adults do not notice their names: a new twist to a classic attention task.

Decay theory of immediate memory: From Brown (1958) to today (2014).

Central and peripheral components of working memory storage.

Time-based loss in visual short-term memory is from trace decay, not temporal distinctiveness.

Knowledge cannot explain the developmental growth of working memory capacity.

A two-stage search of visual working memory: investigating speed in the change-detection paradigm.

The Role of Visual Stimuli in Cross-Modal Stroop Interference.

Remembering complex objects in visual working memory: do capacity limits restrict objects or features?

Cross-Modal Decoding of Neural Patterns Associated with Working Memory: Evidence for Attention-Based Accounts of Working Memory.

Domain-general and domain-specific functional networks in working memory.

Boosting long-term memory via wakeful rest: intentional rehearsal is not necessary, consolidation is sufficient.

Assessing and Revising the Plan for Intelligence Testing.

Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education.

Attending to items in working memory: evidence that refreshing and memory search are closely related.

No recovery of memory when cognitive load is decreased.

Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may develop.

Working memory units are all in your head: Factors that influence whether features or objects are the favored units.

George Miller's magical number of immediate memory in retrospect: Observations on the faltering progression of science.

Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue.

Exploring age differences in visual working memory capacity: is there a contribution of memory for configuration?

Working memory.

Editorial: Representational states in memory: where do we stand?

Detection of the number of changes in a display in working memory.

Use of internal consistency coefficients for estimating reliability of experimental task scores.

Reasoning and memory: People make varied use of the information available in working memory.

On the Use of Response Chunking as a Tool to Investigate Strategies.

Working Memory Maturation: Can We Get at the Essence of Cognitive Growth?

Searching for serial refreshing in working memory: Using response times to track the content of the focus of attention over time.

Chunk formation in immediate memory and how it relates to data compression.

EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY IN WORKING MEMORY DEVELOPMENT.

The Nature of Verbal Short-Term Impairment in Dyslexia: The Importance of Serial Order.

Updating schematic emotional facial expressions in working memory: Response bias and sensitivity.

The many faces of working memory and short-term storage.

The Structure of Working Memory in Young Children and Its Relation to Intelligence.

Process Overlap Theory and First Principles of Intelligence Testing.

Healthy aging and visual working memory: The effect of mixing feature and conjunction changes.

Word Learning Deficits in Children With Dyslexia.

Short-term Memory in Childhood Dyslexia: Deficient Serial Order in Multiple Modalities.