Access to information in working memory: exploring the focus of attention.

By Klaus Oberauer. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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The Relationship Between Working Memory and Mathematical Problem Solving in Children at Risk and Not at Risk for Serious Math Difficulties (2004, background): “Recent studies have suggested that these tasks capture at least two factors of executive processing: susceptibility to interference and manipulation of capacity (see, e.g., Oberauer, 2002; Whitney, Arnett, Driver, & Budd, 2001).”
Working memory capacity and resistance to interference (2004, result): “This is consistent with previous results (e.g., Oberauer, 2002 ) showing that memory list length does not affect the speed of concurrent processing operations as long as they do not require access to information in working memory, which was not the case here.”
The mind and brain of short-term memory. (2008, background): “We reviewed above the evidence for MTL involvement in both short- and long-term memory tasks that require novel representations (see section titled “Contesting the Idea of Separate Long-Term and Short-Term Systems”).”
Working memory capacity: Attention control, secondary memory, or both? A direct test of the dual-component model (2010, background): “…attention switching operations that are more likely needed in dynamic tasks like complex span tasks than in more basic attention and memory tasks (Oberauer, 2002; Unsworth & Engle, 2008; Verhaeghen & Basak, 2005), as well as binding operations that are needed to momentarily bind items (Halford,…”
Attention to Information in Working Memory (2012, methodology): “This three-embedded-components model (Oberauer, 2002, 2009) is an extension of the model proposed by Cowan (1995).”
Neural Evidence for a Distinction Between Short-Term Memory and the Focus of Attention (2011, positive): “It characterizes STM as an emergent property of the interaction of long-term memory (LTM) and attention (Oberauer, 2002; Cowan, 1995; Ericsson & Kintsch, 1995; Cowan, 1988) and postulates a distinction between a capacity-limited central component of STM, referred to as the “focus of attention”(1) an”
The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory. (2007, background): “(2000), as well as Oberauer’s (2002) working memory model.”
Time and cognitive load in working memory. (2007, background): “In the former account, the focus of attention can only select one element of knowledge at a time as the object of the next cognitive operation (Garavan, 1998; Oberauer, 2002, 2005).”
Design for a working memory. (2009, background): “The core of the framework has first been developed to accommodate empirical evidence (Cowan, 1988; Oberauer, 2002); here I will flesh it out by giving it a functional interpretation, and by adding further assumptions and components, hoping that the elaborated framework will prove useful as a…”
Growth in Working Memory and Mathematical Problem Solving in Children at Risk and Not at Risk for Serious Math Difficulties. (2008, methodology): “The WM tasks were assumed to capture at least two factors of executive processing: susceptibility to interference and manipulation of capacity in the coordination of both processing and storage (e.g., Oberauer, 2002; Whitney, Arnett, Driver, & Budd, 2001).”
The variable nature of cognitive control: A dual-mechanisms framework (2012, neutral): “Given the clear and strong capacity limitations of goal representation in the focus of attention [48-50], the engagement of proactive control will substantially reduce available capacity for maintenance of other information that could be held in working memory.”
Working memory updating involves item-specific removal (2014, result): “On the other hand, this finding supports the notion that people try to avoid the costs associated with switching their focus of attention (Basak & Verhaeghen, 2011; Oberauer, 2002) and also their operational mode of WM (see below and Kessler & Oberauer, in press).”
A Common Neural Substrate for Language Production and Verbal Working Memory (2011, neutral): “…representations—invalidates a central tenet of the multicomponent model, and would represent more evidence in support of the idea that WM reflects the temporary activation of LTM representations (Lewis-Peacock & Postle, 2008; Postle, 2006; Ruchkin et al., 2003; Oberauer, 2002; Cowan, 1995).”
A formal model of capacity limits in working memory (2006, background): “The focus of attention selects only one item at a time for processing ( Oberauer, 2002 ), the one receiving the highest activation input.”