On the division of short-term and working memory: an examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order abilities.

By Nash Unsworth, R. Engle. Psychological bulletin, 2007

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

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Language and Executive Functions: The Effect of Articulatory Suppression on Executive Functioning in Children (2012, background): “Working memory tasks are considered to belong to this category, as they require simultaneous maintenance and manipulation of information and are usually employed to measure the capacity of an individual's working memory abilities (Unsworth & Engle, 2007 ).”
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? A meta-analytic review. (2013, background): “…memory capacity could be seen as a limit on an individual’s ability to repeatedly retrieve information from permanent or secondary memory that has been lost from the focus of attention due to competing cognitive activity (for a review, see Conway et al. 2005; Unsworth & Engle, 2007a, 2007b).”
Improving children's working memory and classroom performance (2010, neutral): “Email: h.st-clair-thompson@hull.ac.uk Engle, 2003; Unsworth & Engle, 2007).”
The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: theoretical, empirical, and clinical advances (2013, background): “Simple span tests, such as digit span, mainly tap storage functions in short-term memory, and tend not to be such good predictors of language comprehension, reading ability and speechreading ability [for an early review see Daneman and Merikle (1996); but see Unsworth and Engle (2007)].”
Handbook of individual differences in cognition : attention, memory, and executive control (2010, background): “For example, recent work by Unsworth and Engle 2007; see Ilkowska & Engle, this volume) indicates that complex span - and its relation to cognition - is dually driven by mechanisms that actively maintain a limited number of ~selltal1orlS in the focus of attention and, perhaps primarily, by…”
The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Functioning: Evidence for a Common Executive Attention Construct (2010, methodology): “This system is viewed as a part of larger memory architecture, in which information is perceived, attended to, and retrieved (Baddeley, 1986; Cowan, 2005; Unsworth & Engle, 2007a).”
Task switching: interplay of reconfiguration and interference control. (2010, background): “Executive processes would control thought and action by activating goals and manipulating their activation (e.g., Logan & Gordon, 2001; Meyer & Kieras, 1997; E. K. Miller & Cohen, 2001; Unsworth & Engle, 2007).”
Working memory capacity: Attention control, secondary memory, or both? A direct test of the dual-component model (2010, methodology): “…measures in the current study because we were primarily concerned with current theoretical claims that suggest that secondary memory abilities are important for WMC and account for some (or all) of the variance that is shared between WMC and gF (e.g., Mogle et al., 2008; Unsworth & Engle, 2007a).”
The problem of empirical redundancy of constructs in organizational research: An empirical investigation (2010, background): “More recently, Unsworth and Engle (2007) examined the constructs of working memory and short term memory, long thought to be distinct constructs based on different neural processes, and showed that their measures are actually perfectly collinear.”