Nelson Cowan

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia

Affiliated withUniversity of Missouri-Columbia

Research Area

Biography

Nelson Cowan has not added Biography.
If you are Nelson Cowan and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance.

JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 1	Year
Publication title Cited by 26	2017

Other Publications

Article	Year
The search for what is fundamental in the development of working memory. Advances in child development and behavior\| PubMed ID: 11957571	2002
Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information. Psychophysiology\| PubMed ID: 12212645	2002
Children's working-memory processes: a response-timing analysis. Journal of experimental psychology. General\| PubMed ID: 12656300	2003
List composition and the word length effect in immediate recall: a comparison of localist and globalist assumptions. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 12747492	2003
Verbal recall in amnesiacs under conditions of diminished retroactive interference. Brain : a journal of neurology\| PubMed ID: 14749294	2004
On the auditory modality superiority effect in serial recall: separating input and output factors. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 15099132	2004
When visual and verbal memories compete: evidence of cross-domain limits in working memory. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 15260196	2004
Constant capacity in an immediate serial-recall task: a logical sequel to Miller (1956). Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 15327636	2004
Learning in a unidimensional absolute identification task. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 15732707	2004
From sensory to long-term memory: evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies. Experimental psychology\| PubMed ID: 15779526	2005
Working memory and flexibility in awareness and attention. Psychological research\| PubMed ID: 15856289	2005
Just lying there, remembering: improving recall of prose in amnesic patients with mild cognitive impairment by minimising interference. Memory (Hove, England)\| PubMed ID: 15948630	2005
Capacity limits in list item recognition: evidence from proactive interference. Memory (Hove, England)\| PubMed ID: 15952261	2005
On the capacity of attention: its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes. Cognitive psychology\| PubMed ID: 16039935	2005
When do visual and verbal memories conflict? The importance of working-memory load and retrieval. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 16060774	2005
Coherence of the irrelevant-sound effect: individual profiles of short-term memory and susceptibility to task-irrelevant materials. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 16248331	2005
Rethinking speed theories of cognitive development. Increasing the rate of recall without affecting accuracy. Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 16371146	2006
Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: a reconciliation. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 16393043	2005
Visual working memory depends on attentional filtering. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 16497538	2006
How does running memory span work? Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)\| PubMed ID: 16945854	2006
Life-span development of visual working memory: when is feature binding difficult? Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 17087544	2006
Development of Working Memory for Verbal-Spatial Associations. Journal of memory and language\| PubMed ID: 17387377	2006
Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: a new hypothesis. Trends in cognitive sciences\| PubMed ID: 17475538	2007
Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 17489300	2006
How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated? Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 17680938	2007
Forgetting due to retroactive interference: a fusion of Müller and Pilzecker's (1900) early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior\| PubMed ID: 17715797	2007
Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: dissociating chunk formation and capacity. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 17848030	2007
A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory. Journal of experimental psychology. General\| PubMed ID: 17999578	2007
Differential effects of alcohol on working memory: distinguishing multiple processes. Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology\| PubMed ID: 18179311	2007
What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory? Progress in brain research\| PubMed ID: 18394484	2008
An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 18420818	2008
Task experience and children's working memory performance: a perspective from recall timing. Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 18473637	2008
The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: trade-offs between immediate and delayed deployment. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 18604962	2008
Short-term memory loss over time without retroactive stimulus interference. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 18605508	2008
Working memory capacity for spoken sentences decreases with adult ageing: recall of fewer but not smaller chunks in older adults. Memory (Hove, England)\| PubMed ID: 18671167	2008
Core verbal working-memory capacity: the limit in words retained without covert articulation. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)\| PubMed ID: 19048451	2009
The recall of information from working memory. Insights from behavioural and chronometric perspectives. Experimental psychology\| PubMed ID: 19130763	2008
Comment on "Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision". Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 19213899	2009
Investigating the childhood development of working memory using sentences: new evidence for the growth of chunk capacity. Journal of experimental child psychology\| PubMed ID: 19539305	2009
How verbal memory loads consume attention. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 19679862	2009
Delaying interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients. Neuropsychology\| PubMed ID: 19702416	2009
Seven-year-olds allocate attention like adults unless working memory is overloaded. Developmental science\| PubMed ID: 20121868	2010
Profound retroactive interference in anterograde amnesia: What interferes? Neuropsychology\| PubMed ID: 20438213	2010
The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why? Current directions in psychological science\| PubMed ID: 20445769	2010
Visual working memory deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease are due to both reduced storage capacity and impaired ability to filter out irrelevant information. Brain : a journal of neurology\| PubMed ID: 20688815	2010
Visual working memory is disrupted by covert verbal retrieval. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 20702871	2010
Multiple concurrent thoughts: The meaning and developmental neuropsychology of working memory. Developmental neuropsychology\| PubMed ID: 20721769	2010
Loss of visual working memory within seconds: the combined use of refreshable and non-refreshable features. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 20804281	2010
With development, list recall includes more chunks, not just larger ones. Developmental psychology\| PubMed ID: 20822227	2010
A neural region of abstract working memory. Journal of cognitive neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 21261453	2011
Flexible attention allocation to visual and auditory working memory tasks: manipulating reward induces a trade-off. Attention, perception & psychophysics\| PubMed ID: 21264733	2011
The focus of attention as observed in visual working memory tasks: making sense of competing claims. Neuropsychologia\| PubMed ID: 21277880	2011
How to measure working memory capacity in the change detection paradigm. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 21331668	2011
Can the focus of attention accommodate multiple, separate items? Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 21767065	2011
Age differences in visual working memory capacity: not based on encoding limitations. Developmental science\| PubMed ID: 21884322	2011
Insights into spared memory capacity in amnestic MCI and Alzheimer's Disease via minimal interference. Brain and cognition\| PubMed ID: 22261228	2012
Cognitive control components and speech symptoms in people with schizophrenia. Psychiatry research\| PubMed ID: 22365272	2012
When does a good working memory counteract proactive interference? Surprising evidence from a probe recognition task. Journal of experimental psychology. General\| PubMed ID: 22428613	2013
Models of verbal working memory capacity: what does it take to make them work? Psychological review\| PubMed ID: 22486726	2012
Brief wakeful resting boosts new memories over the long term. Psychological science\| PubMed ID: 22829465	2012
Attention to attributes and objects in working memory. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 22905929	2013
Estimating working memory capacity for lists of nonverbal sounds. Attention, perception & psychophysics\| PubMed ID: 23143913	2013
Working memory inefficiency: minimal information is utilized in visual recognition tasks. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 23421509	2013
A list-length constraint on incidental item-to-item associations. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 23653420	2013
Differences between presentation methods in working memory procedures: a matter of working memory consolidation. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 24059859	2014
A common short-term memory retrieval rate may describe many cognitive procedures. Frontiers in human neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 24639643	2014
Older adults do not notice their names: a new twist to a classic attention task. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 24820668	2014
Decay theory of immediate memory: From Brown (1958) to today (2014). Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)\| PubMed ID: 24853316	2016
Central and peripheral components of working memory storage. Journal of experimental psychology. General\| PubMed ID: 24867488	2014
Time-based loss in visual short-term memory is from trace decay, not temporal distinctiveness. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 24884646	2014
Knowledge cannot explain the developmental growth of working memory capacity. Developmental science\| PubMed ID: 24942111	2015
A two-stage search of visual working memory: investigating speed in the change-detection paradigm. Attention, perception & psychophysics\| PubMed ID: 25023891	2014
The Role of Visual Stimuli in Cross-Modal Stroop Interference. PsyCh journal\| PubMed ID: 25068037	2014
Remembering complex objects in visual working memory: do capacity limits restrict objects or features? Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 25089739	2015
Cross-Modal Decoding of Neural Patterns Associated with Working Memory: Evidence for Attention-Based Accounts of Working Memory. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)\| PubMed ID: 25146374	2016
Domain-general and domain-specific functional networks in working memory. NeuroImage\| PubMed ID: 25178986	2014
Boosting long-term memory via wakeful rest: intentional rehearsal is not necessary, consolidation is sufficient. PloS one\| PubMed ID: 25333957	2014
Assessing and Revising the Plan for Intelligence Testing. Journal of Intelligence\| PubMed ID: 25343045	2014
Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education. Educational psychology review\| PubMed ID: 25346585	2014
Attending to items in working memory: evidence that refreshing and memory search are closely related. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 25361821	2015
No recovery of memory when cognitive load is decreased. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 25419820	2015
Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may develop. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 25610419	2014
Working memory units are all in your head: Factors that influence whether features or objects are the favored units. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 25705873	2015
George Miller's magical number of immediate memory in retrospect: Observations on the faltering progression of science. Psychological review\| PubMed ID: 25751370	2015
Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue. Memory & cognition\| PubMed ID: 25802028	2015
Exploring age differences in visual working memory capacity: is there a contribution of memory for configuration? Journal of experimental child psychology\| PubMed ID: 25841172	2015
Working memory. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science\| PubMed ID: 26271504	2010
Editorial: Representational states in memory: where do we stand? Frontiers in human neuroscience\| PubMed ID: 26347637	2015
Detection of the number of changes in a display in working memory. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 26375783	2016
Use of internal consistency coefficients for estimating reliability of experimental task scores. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 26546100	2016
Reasoning and memory: People make varied use of the information available in working memory. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition\| PubMed ID: 26569436	2016
On the Use of Response Chunking as a Tool to Investigate Strategies. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 26834655	2015
Working Memory Maturation: Can We Get at the Essence of Cognitive Growth? Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science\| PubMed ID: 26993277	2016
Searching for serial refreshing in working memory: Using response times to track the content of the focus of attention over time. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 27068541	2016
Chunk formation in immediate memory and how it relates to data compression. Cognition\| PubMed ID: 27367593	2016
EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY IN WORKING MEMORY DEVELOPMENT. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development\| PubMed ID: 27500819	2016
The Nature of Verbal Short-Term Impairment in Dyslexia: The Importance of Serial Order. Frontiers in psychology\| PubMed ID: 27752247	2016
Updating schematic emotional facial expressions in working memory: Response bias and sensitivity. Acta psychologica\| PubMed ID: 27835749	2017
The many faces of working memory and short-term storage. Psychonomic bulletin & review\| PubMed ID: 27896630	2016
The Structure of Working Memory in Young Children and Its Relation to Intelligence. Journal of memory and language\| PubMed ID: 27990060	2017
Process Overlap Theory and First Principles of Intelligence Testing. Psychological inquiry\| PubMed ID: 28220054	2016
Healthy aging and visual working memory: The effect of mixing feature and conjunction changes. Psychology and aging\| PubMed ID: 28333504	2017
Word Learning Deficits in Children With Dyslexia. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR\| PubMed ID: 28388708	2017
Short-term Memory in Childhood Dyslexia: Deficient Serial Order in Multiple Modalities. Dyslexia (Chichester, England)\| PubMed ID: 28497530	2017