There is broad agreement that working memory is closely related to attention. This article
delineates several theoretical options for conceptualizing this link, and evaluates their …

The ability to selectively process information (attention) and to retain information in an
accessible state (working memory) are critical aspects of our cognitive capacities. While …

Working memory retains information and makes it available for processing. People often
need to hold several chunks of information available while concentrating on only one of …

Working memory (WM) and attention have been studied as separate cognitive constructs,
although it has long been acknowledged that attention plays an important role in controlling …

Studies of attention and working memory address the fundamental limits in our ability to
encode and maintain behaviorally relevant information, processes that are critical for goal …

Recent research has shown interactions between the process of keeping information
'online'in working memory, and the processes that select relevant information for a response …

The relationship between working memory and selective attention has traditionally been
discussed as operating in one direction: Attention filters incoming information, allowing only …

''Bigger is better.''So goes the message of many theoretical perspectives on working
memory, views that emphasize working memory as a ''mental workspace''which houses the …

The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for
understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental …

Virtually all theories agreed that if verbal short-term memory was characterized by any single
task, that task was digit span, with longer sequences of digits occupying more of the capacity …