Working Memory Capacity

ISBN-13: 9781841690971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 260 str.

Nelson Cowan

Opis

The main thesis of this groundbreaking book is that it has been difficult to measure Working Memory (WM), but there is now a method that allows us to begin to do so. Nelson sets his findings in the context of other work into WM and WM capacity, which in many cases has approached the study from many different angles.

Spis treści

Preface. The Problem of Capacity Limits. The Processing System as a Context to Examine Capacity. Refinement of the Concept of Working Memory Capacity. Capacity Limits and the Measurement of Chunking. Further Evidence of a Constant Capacity. Other Views of Capacity Limits. Why the Capacity Limit?.

O autorze

Nelson Cowan is currently Professor of Psychology, University of Missouri. His research specializations include short-term or working memory, childhood development of short-term and working memory, and the relationship between working memory and selective attention. Nelson edited a book for Psychology Press on the Development of Memory in Childhood (1997) and is currently an Associate Editor on our journal, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A.