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

By Nelson Cowan, E. Elliott, J. Scott Saults, Candice C. Morey, S. Mattox, Anna Hismjatullina, Andrew R. A. Conway. Cognitive Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Working memory capacity: Attention control, secondary memory, or both? A direct test of the dual-component model (2010, methodology): “To explore the shared and unique contribution of each latent component with gF further, we utilized variance partitioning methods that have been used previously (e.g., Chuah & Maybery, 1999; Cowan et al., 2005).”
Is working memory training effective? (2012, background): “This controversy aside, the foregoing researchers agree that the running span is a valid WM task and, despite the lack of an interpolated processing task, highly related to the complex span (Broadway & Engle, 2010; Cowan et al., 2005; Miyake et al., 2000).”
Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016, background): “Cowan et al. (2005) found that running span correlates well with various measures of cognitive ability in children and adults (see also Mukunda & Hall, 1992).”
Eye tracking studies of normative and atypical development (2007, background): “Researchers who use the construct of resources to account for developmental changes in cognition argue that older children either have more resources or use their resources more efficiently than younger children (for reviews, see Bayliss, Jarrold, Baddeley, Gunn, & Leigh, 2005; Cowan et al., 2005).”
Working memory performance in expert and novice interpreters (2006, positive): “The three tasks which give rise to group effects certainly imply a central working memory holding area which could be the central executive (Baddeley 1986) or the focus of attention (Cowan 2000b, Cowan et al. 2005).”
The mechanisms of working memory capacity: Primary memory, secondary memory, and attention control (2014, methodology): “Two tasks explicitly involved a selective attention component (VA3 and VA4) which required participants to ignore specific distractor items. Two did not (VA1 and VA2). In calculating the dependent variable, k, ‘‘N’’ was always defined as the number of valid target-items on a screen. Thus, if ten tar”
The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Functioning: Evidence for a Common Executive Attention Construct (2010, methodology): “, 2007), or the focus of attention (Cowan et al., 2005).”
An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (2017, background): “…working memory is one of the strongest determinants of individual differences in cognitive abilities (e.g., Kane et al., 2004; Oberauer, Sü , Wilhelm, & Sander, 2007) as well as of developmental variation in cognitive abilities (Cowan et al., 2005; Hale, Myerson, Emery, Lawrence, & Dufault, 2007).”
Chapter Six - How Working Memory Capacity Affects Problem Solving (2012, methodology): “Using these measures, Cowan et al. (2005) have demonstrated independent contributions of both scope of attention constructs as well as more typical measures of WMC to RPM.”