Simple and complex memory spans and their relation to fluid abilities: Evidence from list-length effects

By Nash Unsworth, R. Engle. 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, 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, background): “Similarly, we have previously suggested that individual variation in the capacity of primary memory (which we see as analogous to the focus of attention) contributes to variation in overall WMC and the relation between WMC and gF (Unsworth & Engle, 2006, 2007a).”
Working memory, fluid intelligence, and science learning (2006, background): “Studies also found dual-tasks have higher and more consistent correlations with higher-order cognitive abilities than have simple memory span tasks (Engle, Tuholski, et al., 1999; Unsworth & Engle, 2006).”
Disentangling the relationship between working memory and language: The roles of short-term storage and cognitive control (2011, background): “Increasing evidence suggests that simple span tasks reflect both STM and cognitive control (Engel de Abreu, Conway, & Gathercole, 2010; Unsworth & Engle, 2006); the degree to which STM and higher order linguistic abilities seem to be related might thus depend on whether mechanisms of cognitive…”
Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016, methodology): “For instance, simple span tests with long lists correlate as strongly with measures of Gf as complex span tests (Unsworth & Engle, 2006, 2007).”
On the division of short-term and working memory: an examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order abilities. (2007, methodology): “If, as argued previously, variability from these long lists is important in predicting performance on higher order cognitive tasks (see Unsworth & Engle, 2006a), then using the ABS method likely reduced the amount of variability from these list lengths and attenuated the correlations.”
The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory. (2007, methodology): “…Glenberg, Bradley, Stevenson, Kraus, & Renzaglia, 1983; Glenberg et al., 1980, Lee & Estes, 1981), we assume that several different contextual elements are associated with each item at encoding and that these different contextual elements change at different rates (e.g., Unsworth & Engle, 2006a).”
A temporal–contextual retrieval account of complex span: An analysis of errors (2006, background): “We ( Unsworth & Engle, 2006 ) have previously suggested that the ability to use cues to effectively delimit the search set in memory may be one important difference between high and low complex span individuals and one reason why complex span tasks correlate well with measures of higher-order cognit”
Working Memory and Fluid Intelligence in Young Children. (2010, background): “Unsworth and Engle (2006, 2007) have repeatedly shown that long-list simple span tasks correlate as strongly with measures of Gf as complex span tasks.”
Is working memory training effective? (2012, background): “Simple span performance reflects WM capacity, provided (a) testing continues regardless of whether the test-taker recalls the entire list, and (b) partial credit is then assigned for remembering items in their original serial position (Unsworth & Engle, 2006, 2007b).”