Is working memory still working?

By Alan Baddeley. American Psychologist, 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Can fluid intelligence be reduced to 'simple' short-term storage? (2011, background): “Attention is a broad cognitive function for focusing available mental resources (Baddeley, 2002).”
Modeling Phonological Core Deficits Within a Working Memory Architecture in Children and Adults With Developmental Dyslexia (2006, background): “Current models (Baddeley, 2002) allow for other kinds of storage, including an episodic buffer for storing novel stimuli.”
Process Overlap Theory: A Unified Account of the General Factor of Intelligence (2016, background): “(Baddeley, 2002, p. 89) Thus, further research was required to investigate whether the executive component of working memory is “a single coordinated system that serves multiple functions, a true executive, or a cluster of largely autonomous control processes—an executive committee” (Baddeley,…”
A short physical activity break from cognitive tasks increases selective attention in primary school children aged 10–11 (2014, background): “Although selective attention is highly important for academic performance (38) and that selective attention impacts language, literacy, and math skills (39), the actual contribution of the observed improvement in selective attention on academic performance is unknown and needs further research longi”
Working memory in developing and applying mental models from spatial descriptions (2008, methodology): “…Baddeley, 1996; Baddeley et al., 1998; Brunyé et al., 2006), inferencing and analogical reasoning (Morrison, 2004), attending to one and inhibiting disruption of another stimulus (e.g., Baddeley, 2002), and temporal tagging (Miyake & Shah, 1999; Miyake, Friedman, Emerson, Witzki, & Howerter, 2000).”
Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012, background): “The predominant model of working memory posits verbal, visuospatial, and episodic mem- 148 February–March 2012 ● American Psychologist ory as three subsystems that are coordinated by an executive that is often conceptualized as attentional control (Baddeley, 2002; Baddeley & Hitch, 1974).”
Working memory, attention and their relationship: A theoretical overview (2021, background): “(Baddeley & Logie, 1999). Moreover, Adam and deBettencourt (2019) mention fluctuations of attention and working memory, and they propose that fluctuations of sustained attention signify a unique component between attention and working memory and affect everything that an individual remembers. In fac”
Perceptual organization masquerading as phonological storage: Further support for a perceptual-gestural view of short-term memory (2006, background): “Indeed, the use of the term phonological seems to have been deliberately adopted in favor of the terms acoustic or articulatory (see, e.g., Baddeley, 2002) to indicate the abstract nature of the phonological storeÕs unit of currency.”
Cognitive Load and Working Memory in Multimedia Learning: Conceptual and Measurement Issues (2019, methodology): “%) of the articles included any conceptualization or clear definition of working memory by referring to classic sources in the working memory literature, such as Baddeley and colleagues (e.g., Baddeley, 1986, 2001; Baddeley & Hitch, 1974), or to Paivio’s (e.g., 1971, 1986) work.”
Working memory and language: an overview. (2003, background): “Finally, and most importantly, behavior was assumed to be controlled by a limited capacity attentional system, the central executive (Baddeley, 2001).”
Relations between measures of Cattell‐Horn‐Carroll (CHC) cognitive abilities and mathematics achievement across the school‐age years (2003, result): “This finding is consistent with research indicating the importance of processes associated with the central executive, an attentional control system that mediates cognitive operations, such as arithmetic calculations, performed in immediate memory (Baddeley, 1996, 2001; Baddeley & Hitch, 1994).”
Working memory, fluid intelligence, and science learning (2006, background): “Baddeley (2002) proposed that WM was composed of a phonological loop, a visuospatial sketchpad, an episodic buffer, and the central executive.”
Digit Span: Effect of education and culture (2006, methodology): “As Baddeley (1996, 2001) has pointed out, the Digit Span task would imply relatively little complex processing, determined more by storage than by executive functioning, but as the number of digits to be recalled increases, so does the recruitment of the phonological loop and the central executive.”