Nelson Cowan

Curators' Distinguished Professor
18 McAlester Hall
573-882-4232
Lab Area:
Research Interests:
- 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
Bio:
B.S. University of Michigan, 1973
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1980
Postdoctoral Fellowship at NYU, 1981-82
Currently Curators' Professor, University of Missouri
Department of Psychological Sciences
Selected Publications:
Please visit my web page, http://faculty.missouri.edu/cowann/index.php