Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence.

By Andrew R. A. Conway, M. Kane, R. Engle. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The role of working memory in sport (2010, neutral): “Conway, Kane, & Engle, 2003 ; Kane et al, 2004 ; Kyllonen & Christal, 1990 ; Sus, Oberauer, Wittmann, Wilhelm, & Schulze, 2002 ).”
Which Working Memory Functions Predict Intelligence (2008, background): “Measures of working memory capacity (WMC) have been shown repeatedly to be excellent predictors of intelligence, in particular reasoning ability (for reviews see Ackerman, Beier, & Boyle, 2005; Conway, Kane, & Engle, 2003; Kane, Hambrick, & Conway, 2005; Oberauer, Schulze, Wilhelm, & Suβ, 2005).”
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory (2008, neutral): “Although working memory capacity and Gf may share common variance, they are far from being isomorphic (26, 27).”
The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function (2021, result): “Rather, intelligence may be related to both common CC and working memory-specific processes, consistent with earlier research showing that intelligence and particularly reasoning ability are strongly related to working memory capacity [178, 179].”
Variation in Working Memory Capacity as Variation in Executive Attention and Control (2012, neutral): “Structural-equation model, adapted from Conway et al. (2002). WMC =working”
The concurrent validity of the N-back task as a working memory measure (2010, methodology): “The reason to prefer the N -back task over traditional WM span tasks in functional neuroimaging lies in the appealing way to manipulate WM load and in its response requirements, which are less complex than in standard WM capacity tasks (Conway, Kane, & Engle, 2003 ).”
Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention (2008, background): “With tasks that demand processing in addition to storage, the basis of the relation is most likely an executive-attention control mechanism, which is mediated by portions of the prefrontal cortex—the brain location where fluid reasoning and g are also centered (Conway et al., 2003).”
Decision-making Competence, Executive Functioning, and General Cognitive Abilities (2012, background): “…relationships between complex cognitive tasks (including reasoning tasks) and measures of working memory and updating (e.g. Ackerman et al., 2005; Conway et al., 2003; Kane et al., 2004; Kane, Hambrick, & Conway, 2005; Kyllonen & Christal, 1990; van der Sluis et al., 2007; Süβ et al., 2002).”
CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY IN INTERACTION-DRIVEN L2 LEARNING (2012, methodology): “…is another complex span measure that has been widely utilized and accepted as tapping verbal WMC since Turner and Engle’s ( 1989 ) fi rst version (Conway et al., 2003 ; Kane et al., 2004 ; Rosen & Engle, 1998 ; Tokowicz et al., 2004 ; Unsworth, 2007 ; Unsworth & Engle, 2007 ; see Unsworth,…”
The generality of working memory capacity: a latent-variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning. (2004, background): “On the whole, then, we argue that WMC is an important contributor to Gf, but the two constructs are probably not isomorphic (see also Ackerman et al., 2002; Conway, Kane, & Engle, 2003; Stankov, 2002).”
Where smart brains are different: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional and structural brain imaging studies on intelligence (2015, background): “(Conway et al., 2003) – suggests that also functional correlates of cognitive performance change with age.”