Interference control, working memory capacity, and cognitive abilities: A latent variable analysis

By Nash Unsworth. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “Searching knowledge based on an abstract criterion and managing interference both entail executive processes (Unsworth, 2010), so we would expect a significant contribution of Gf to the quality of creative metaphors.”
When are fluid intelligence and working memory isomorphic and when are they not (2013, background): “60), several other studies applied severe time constraints, but did not yield strong correlations between WM and Gf latent variables (e.g., Kane et al., 2004; Unsworth, 2010; Unsworth, Brewer, & Spillers, 2009; Unsworth, Miller et al., 2009; Unsworth, Spillers, & Brewer, 2010).”
The Effects of Mathematics Strategy Instruction for Children with Serious Problem-Solving Difficulties (2014, background): “…is also based on research showing that a key mechanism that underlies WMC is controlled attention, an individual’s ability to access and process relevant information in the context of interfering information (Engle, Tuholski, Laughlin, & Conway, 1999; Unsworth, 2010; Unsworth & Engle, 2007).”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “Managing interference is a central executive process (Unsworth, 2010), and several cognitive abilities, particularly fluid intelligence and working memory span ( Burgess, Gray, Conway, & Braver, 2011), predict how well people can do it.”
Verbal Memory Interference in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review (2022, background): “Interference control is a type of executive control process that is used to distinguish between competing memory representations (Jonides & Nee, 2006; Nelson et al., 2003; Unsworth, 2010; see Festini & Katz, 2021) or stop irrelevant memory traces from accessing the focus of attention (Friedman & Miy”
Measuring Working Memory Capacity With Automated Complex Span Tasks (2012, result): “The correlation between the automated CSTs and the n-back task is small (Jaeggi, Studer-Leuthi et al., 2010; Unsworth, 2010b; Unsworth, Miller et al., 2009), although this is consistent with previous research (Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Perrig, & Meier, 2010; Kane et al., 2007) showing little overlap…”
What’s the best way to characterize the relationship between working memory and achievement?: An initial examination of competing theories. (2020, background): “…of WM proposes that WM tasks not only measure the ability to manipulate, attend to, and store information that is temporarily held in mind, these tasks also provide an index of the ability to retrieve information from long term memory (LTM; Unsworth, 2010; Unsworth, Spillers, & Brewer, 2012).”