Working memory: the past, the present, and the future of a theoretical construct

Abstract. Working memory provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of maintenance of information in the context of subsequent cognitive processes and associated ...

Verbal short-term memory as the result of interactions between attention, order processing, and language activation

Abstract. This paper investigates the potential specificity of verbal short-term memory in the light of its relation with lexical language ...

On the interaction of verbal short-term memory and language processing: evidence from cognitive neuropsychology

Abstract. The present review summarizes patient studies which are relevant for models of verbal short-term memory. Cognitive single case ...

Visuo-spatial working memory: an emergent feature of representing stimuli in the processing network for visual information

Abstract. In the multi-component model, a separate visual working memory is postulated that is subdivided into a visual cache ...

Interference in working memory: a formal model

Abstract. The authors propose a neural-network model of working memory. Contents of working memory are represented as distributed patterns of activation. Bindings between content representations and context ...

Verbal working memory: capacity or experience?

Abstract. To account for interindividual differences in language performance, two opposing frameworks will be discussed: the theory of a capacity-constrained working memory resource (), ...