The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective

By M. Kane, R. Engle. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2002

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

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Working memory as an emergent property of the mind and brain. (2006, positive): “…" is the mental construct that underlies gF and working memory performance (Engle et al., 1999), and they suggest that executive attention underlies much of the working memory-related activity of the PFC, particularly in situations in which interference must be overcome (Kane & Engle, 2003).”
The role of working memory in sport (2010, background): “The controlled attention (e.g. Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001) or executive attention1 (Kane & Engle, 2002, 2003) theory of WM also regards WM as a multicomponent system (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974) responsible for active maintenance of information in the face of ongoing processing and/or…”
Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user’s guide (2005, methodology): “…support for the claims presented here, can be found elsewhere (e.g., Conway et al., 2002; Conway & Kane, 2001; Conway et al., 2003; Engle, 2001, 2002; Engle, Kane, & Tuholski, 1999; Engle, Tuholski, et al., 1999; Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001; Kane & Engle, 2002; Kane et al., 2004).”
Working memory tasks differ in factor structure across age cohorts: Implications for dedifferentiation. (2010, background): “Different versions of this kind of test, thought to involve both mental processing and immediate memory, have been shown to correlate strongly with fluid intelligence (e.g. Baddeley et al., 1985; Kane & Engle, 2002).”
Modelling neural correlates of working memory: A coordinate-based meta-analysis (2011, neutral): “In particular, neurons in this " executive committee " network may be tuned to represent relevant information across a diversity of tasks, thereby producing the well-known capacity limits in attention and WM alike (Kane and Engle, 2002, 2003).”
Working memory training does not improve intelligence in healthy young adults (2012, background): “Kane and Engle (2002) reported that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex could have a role in WM especially related to attention control.”
Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking (2005, background): “Executive attention, working-memory capacity, and fluid intelligence Kane & Engle (2000; 2002) and Engle et al. (1999) have defined executive attention as the ability to maintain memory representations in a highly-active (conscious ) state despite interference or response competition .”
Chapter Six - How Working Memory Capacity Affects Problem Solving (2012, background): “Although measures of WMC were not obtained, one would suspect that these frontal patients would do poorly on complex span tasks, due to the established relation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to the control of attention (Kane & Engle, 2002).”
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. (2005, background): “2 ) , are involved in the executive functions of working memory , as is the ACC ( Area 24 ; Kane & Engle , 2002 ; Miller & Cohen , 2001 ) .”
Assessment of Hot and Cool Executive Function in Young Children: Age-Related Changes and Individual Differences (2005, positive): “…and neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated the involvement of DL–PFC in working memory, in both adults (e.g., Curtis, Zald, & Pardo, 2000; Jacobson, 1936; Kane & Engle, 2002; Petrides & Milner, 1982) and children (Tsujimoto, Yamamoto, Kawaguchi, Koizumi, & Sawaguchi, 2004).”
Working memory and intelligence: the same or different constructs? (2005, background): “In addition, they asserted that “there are simply too many strong correlations among diverse WM-capacity tasks and diverse higher order tasks to deny that some general mechanism is involved” (Kane & Engle, 2002, p. 659).”
On the failure of cognitive ability to predict myside and one-sided thinking biases (2008, positive): “…working memory capacity, and the efficiency of the retrieval of information stored in long-term memory (Ackerman, Kyllonen, & Richards, 1999; Carpenter, Just, & Shell, 1990; Deary, 2000, 2001; Hunt, 1987, 1999; Kane & Engle, 2002; Lohman, 2000; Sternberg, 1977, 1985, 2000; Unsworth & Engle, 2005).”
Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. (2004, background): “As we indicated earlier, PFC circuitry is associated with controlled attentional processes (Kane & Engle, 2002).”