Curators' Professor 18 McAlester Hall 573-882-4232 CowanN@missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~cowann/ Lab: Working Memory Laboratory

- Working memory, the small amount of information held in mind
- How much can be held in working memory
- How the amount in working memory can be measured
- Childhood development of working memory
- The role of selective attention in working memory
- Life span development of working memory
- Consciousness and its relation to working memory

Here I have emphasized some recent publications.
For a longer list of my older publications, see pages linked to my home page (listed above). If you cannot get a copy there, please send me a request by email (also listed above). -- Nelson Cowan
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Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
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Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., AuBuchon, A.M., Zwilling, C.E., & Gilchrist, A.L. (in press). Seven-year-olds allocate attention like adults unless working memory is overloaded. Developmental Science.
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Chen, Z., & Cowan, N. (in press). Core verbal working memory capacity: The limit in words retained without covert articulation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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Gilchrist, A.L., Cowan, N., & Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2008). Working memory capacity for spoken sentences decreases with adult aging: Recall of fewer, but not smaller chunks in older adults. Memory, 16, 773-787.
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Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., Cowan, N., Zwilling, C.E., Morey, C.C., & Pratte, M.S. (2008). An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 105, 5975-5979.
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Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., Saults, J.S., Chen, Z., & Gilchrist, A.L. (2008). Theory and measurement of working memory capacity limits. In Ross, B.H. (ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, 49, 49-104.
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Cowan, N., & Morey, C.C. (2007). How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated? Psychological Science, 18, 686-688.
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Saults, J.S., & Cowan, N. (2007). A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 663-684.
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Cowan, N., Naveh-Benjamin, M., Kilb, A., & Saults, J.S. (2006). Life-Span development of visual working memory: When is feature binding difficult? Developmental Psychology, 42, 1089-1102.
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Cowan, N., Elliott, E.M., Saults, J.S., Nugent, L.D., Bomb, P., & Hismjatullina, A. (2006). Rethinking speed theories of cognitive development: Increasing the rate of recall without affecting accuracy. Psychological Science, 17, 67-73.
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Cowan, N., Elliott, E.M., Saults, J.S., Morey, C.C., Mattox, S., Hismjatullina, A., & Conway, A.R.A. (2005). On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes. Cognitive Psychology, 51, 42-100.