Nelson Cowan Department of Psychological Sciences University of Missouri-Columbia Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Nelson Cowan has not added a biography. If you are Nelson Cowan and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Short-term Memory in Childhood Dyslexia: Deficient Serial Order in Multiple Modalities Dyslexia (Chichester, England). May, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28497530 Word Learning Deficits in Children With Dyslexia Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR. Apr, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28388708 Healthy Aging and Visual Working Memory: The Effect of Mixing Feature and Conjunction Changes Psychology and Aging. Jun, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28333504 The Structure of Working Memory in Young Children and Its Relation to Intelligence Journal of Memory and Language. Feb, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27990060 Updating Schematic Emotional Facial Expressions in Working Memory: Response Bias and Sensitivity Acta Psychologica. Jan, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27835749 Process Overlap Theory and First Principles of Intelligence Testing Psychological Inquiry. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 28220054 The Many Faces of Working Memory and Short-term Storage Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Nov, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27896630 The Nature of Verbal Short-Term Impairment in Dyslexia: The Importance of Serial Order Frontiers in Psychology. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27752247 EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY IN WORKING MEMORY DEVELOPMENT Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Sep, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27500819 Chunk Formation in Immediate Memory and How It Relates to Data Compression Cognition. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27367593 Searching for Serial Refreshing in Working Memory: Using Response Times to Track the Content of the Focus of Attention over Time Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Dec, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27068541 Working Memory Maturation: Can We Get at the Essence of Cognitive Growth? Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Mar, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26993277 Reasoning and Memory: People Make Varied Use of the Information Available in Working Memory Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. May, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26569436 Use of Internal Consistency Coefficients for Estimating Reliability of Experimental Task Scores Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Jun, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26546100 Detection of the Number of Changes in a Display in Working Memory Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Feb, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26375783 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). Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 25146374 Decay Theory of Immediate Memory: From Brown (1958) to Today (2014) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 24853316 On the Use of Response Chunking As a Tool to Investigate Strategies Frontiers in Psychology. 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26834655 Editorial: Representational States in Memory: Where Do We Stand? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26347637 Exploring Age Differences in Visual Working Memory Capacity: is There a Contribution of Memory for Configuration? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25841172 Perspectives on Working Memory: Introduction to the Special Issue Memory & Cognition. Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25802028 George Miller's Magical Number of Immediate Memory in Retrospect: Observations on the Faltering Progression of Science Psychological Review. Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25751370 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. Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25705873 No Recovery of Memory when Cognitive Load is Decreased Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. May, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25419820 Attending to Items in Working Memory: Evidence That Refreshing and Memory Search Are Closely Related Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Aug, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25361821 Remembering Complex Objects in Visual Working Memory: Do Capacity Limits Restrict Objects or Features? Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Mar, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25089739 Knowledge Cannot Explain the Developmental Growth of Working Memory Capacity Developmental Science. Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 24942111 Applying How Adults Rehearse to Understand How Rehearsal May Develop Frontiers in Psychology. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25610419 Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education Educational Psychology Review. Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25346585 Assessing and Revising the Plan for Intelligence Testing Journal of Intelligence. Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25343045 Boosting Long-term Memory Via Wakeful Rest: Intentional Rehearsal is Not Necessary, Consolidation is Sufficient PloS One. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25333957 Domain-general and Domain-specific Functional Networks in Working Memory NeuroImage. Nov, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25178986 The Role of Visual Stimuli in Cross-Modal Stroop Interference PsyCh Journal. Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25068037 A Two-stage Search of Visual Working Memory: Investigating Speed in the Change-detection Paradigm Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25023891 Time-based Loss in Visual Short-term Memory is from Trace Decay, Not Temporal Distinctiveness Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24884646 Central and Peripheral Components of Working Memory Storage Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24867488 Older Adults Do Not Notice Their Names: a New Twist to a Classic Attention Task Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24820668 A Common Short-term Memory Retrieval Rate May Describe Many Cognitive Procedures Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24639643 Differences Between Presentation Methods in Working Memory Procedures: a Matter of Working Memory Consolidation Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24059859 A List-length Constraint on Incidental Item-to-item Associations Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23653420 Working Memory Inefficiency: Minimal Information is Utilized in Visual Recognition Tasks Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23421509 Estimating Working Memory Capacity for Lists of Nonverbal Sounds Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23143913 Attention to Attributes and Objects in Working Memory Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 22905929 When Does a Good Working Memory Counteract Proactive Interference? Surprising Evidence from a Probe Recognition Task Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. Feb, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 22428613 Brief Wakeful Resting Boosts New Memories over the Long Term Psychological Science. Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22829465 Models of Verbal Working Memory Capacity: What Does It Take to Make Them Work? Psychological Review. Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22486726 Cognitive Control Components and Speech Symptoms in People with Schizophrenia Psychiatry Research. Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22365272 Insights into Spared Memory Capacity in Amnestic MCI and Alzheimer's Disease Via Minimal Interference Brain and Cognition. Apr, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22261228 Age Differences in Visual Working Memory Capacity: Not Based on Encoding Limitations Developmental Science. Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21884322 Can the Focus of Attention Accommodate Multiple, Separate Items? Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21767065 How to Measure Working Memory Capacity in the Change Detection Paradigm Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21331668 The Focus of Attention As Observed in Visual Working Memory Tasks: Making Sense of Competing Claims Neuropsychologia. May, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21277880 Flexible Attention Allocation to Visual and Auditory Working Memory Tasks: Manipulating Reward Induces a Trade-off Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Feb, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21264733 A Neural Region of Abstract Working Memory Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21261453 Working Memory Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 26271504 With Development, List Recall Includes More Chunks, Not Just Larger Ones Developmental Psychology. Sep, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20822227 Loss of Visual Working Memory Within Seconds: the Combined Use of Refreshable and Non-refreshable Features Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20804281 Multiple Concurrent Thoughts: The Meaning and Developmental Neuropsychology of Working Memory Developmental Neuropsychology. 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20721769 Visual Working Memory is Disrupted by Covert Verbal Retrieval Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Aug, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20702871 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. Sep, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20688815 The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why? Current Directions in Psychological Science. Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20445769 Profound Retroactive Interference in Anterograde Amnesia: What Interferes? Neuropsychology. May, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20438213 Seven-year-olds Allocate Attention Like Adults Unless Working Memory is Overloaded Developmental Science. Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20121868 Delaying Interference Enhances Memory Consolidation in Amnesic Patients Neuropsychology. Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19702416 How Verbal Memory Loads Consume Attention Memory & Cognition. Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19679862 Investigating the Childhood Development of Working Memory Using Sentences: New Evidence for the Growth of Chunk Capacity Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Oct, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19539305 Comment on "Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision" Science (New York, N.Y.). Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19213899 Core Verbal Working-memory Capacity: the Limit in Words Retained Without Covert Articulation Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). Jul, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19048451 The Recall of Information from Working Memory. Insights from Behavioural and Chronometric Perspectives Experimental Psychology. 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19130763 Working Memory Capacity for Spoken Sentences Decreases with Adult Ageing: Recall of Fewer but Not Smaller Chunks in Older Adults Memory (Hove, England). Oct, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18671167 Short-term Memory Loss over Time Without Retroactive Stimulus Interference Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Feb, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18605508 The Deployment of Attention in Short-term Memory Tasks: Trade-offs Between Immediate and Delayed Deployment Memory & Cognition. Jun, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18604962 Task Experience and Children's Working Memory Performance: a Perspective from Recall Timing Developmental Psychology. May, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18473637 An Assessment of Fixed-capacity Models of Visual Working Memory Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Apr, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18420818 What Are the Differences Between Long-term, Short-term, and Working Memory? Progress in Brain Research. 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18394484 Differential Effects of Alcohol on Working Memory: Distinguishing Multiple Processes Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Dec, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 18179311 A Central Capacity Limit to the Simultaneous Storage of Visual and Auditory Arrays in Working Memory Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. Nov, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17999578 Age-related Differences in Immediate Serial Recall: Dissociating Chunk Formation and Capacity Memory & Cognition. Jun, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17848030 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. Jul, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17715797 How Can Dual-task Working Memory Retention Limits Be Investigated? Psychological Science. Aug, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17680938 Separating Cognitive Capacity from Knowledge: a New Hypothesis Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Jun, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17475538 Scope of Attention, Control of Attention, and Intelligence in Children and Adults Memory & Cognition. Dec, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17489300 Development of Working Memory for Verbal-Spatial Associations Journal of Memory and Language. Aug, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17387377 Life-span Development of Visual Working Memory: when is Feature Binding Difficult? Developmental Psychology. Nov, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17087544 How Does Running Memory Span Work? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006). Oct, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16945854 Visual Working Memory Depends on Attentional Filtering Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Apr, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16497538 Rethinking Speed Theories of Cognitive Development. Increasing the Rate of Recall Without Affecting Accuracy Psychological Science. Jan, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16371146 Chunk Limits and Length Limits in Immediate Recall: a Reconciliation Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16393043 Coherence of the Irrelevant-sound Effect: Individual Profiles of Short-term Memory and Susceptibility to Task-irrelevant Materials Memory & Cognition. Jun, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16248331 When Do Visual and Verbal Memories Conflict? The Importance of Working-memory Load and Retrieval Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Jul, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16060774 On the Capacity of Attention: Its Estimation and Its Role in Working Memory and Cognitive Aptitudes Cognitive Psychology. Aug, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16039935 Capacity Limits in List Item Recognition: Evidence from Proactive Interference Memory (Hove, England). Apr-May, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15952261 Just Lying There, Remembering: Improving Recall of Prose in Amnesic Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment by Minimising Interference Memory (Hove, England). Apr-May, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15948630 Working Memory and Flexibility in Awareness and Attention Psychological Research. Jun, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15856289 From Sensory to Long-term Memory: Evidence from Auditory Memory Reactivation Studies Experimental Psychology. 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15779526 Learning in a Unidimensional Absolute Identification Task Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Oct, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15732707 Constant Capacity in an Immediate Serial-recall Task: a Logical Sequel to Miller (1956) Psychological Science. Sep, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15327636 When Visual and Verbal Memories Compete: Evidence of Cross-domain Limits in Working Memory Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Apr, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15260196 On the Auditory Modality Superiority Effect in Serial Recall: Separating Input and Output Factors Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. May, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15099132 Verbal Recall in Amnesiacs Under Conditions of Diminished Retroactive Interference Brain : a Journal of Neurology. Apr, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 14749294 List Composition and the Word Length Effect in Immediate Recall: a Comparison of Localist and Globalist Assumptions Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Mar, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12747492 Children's Working-memory Processes: a Response-timing Analysis Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. Mar, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12656300 Temporary and Longer Term Retention of Acoustic Information Psychophysiology. Jul, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12212645 The Search for What is Fundamental in the Development of Working Memory Advances in Child Development and Behavior. 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11957571 Assessing Working Memory in Children: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children – Working Memory (CABC-WM) Kathryn Cabbage1, Shara Brinkley2, Shelley Gray2, Mary Alt3, Nelson Cowan4, Samuel Green5, Trudy Kuo6, Tiffany P. Hogan1 1Communication Sciences and Disorders, MGH Institute of Health Professions, 2Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, 3Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, 4Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 5Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, 6School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University - West JoVE 55121 Comportement
Assessing Working Memory in Children: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children – Working Memory (CABC-WM) Kathryn Cabbage1, Shara Brinkley2, Shelley Gray2, Mary Alt3, Nelson Cowan4, Samuel Green5, Trudy Kuo6, Tiffany P. Hogan1 1Communication Sciences and Disorders, MGH Institute of Health Professions, 2Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, 3Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, 4Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 5Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, 6School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University - West JoVE 55121 Comportement