Working memory refers to how we keep track of what we are doing moment to moment
throughout our waking lives. It allows us to remember what we have just done, focus on what …

Recent studies have revealed that the deployment of attention can be biased by the content
of visual working memory (VWM), but that stored memories do not always interact with …

Cognitive neuroscience research on working memory has been largely motivated by a
standard model that arose from the melding of psychological theory with neuroscience data …

From the conception of Baddeley's visuospatial sketchpad, visual working memory and
visual attention have been closely linked concepts. An attractive model has advocated unity …

Since the concept of working memory was introduced over 50 years ago, different schools of
thought have offered different definitions for working memory based on the various cognitive …

Virtually all working memory (WM) theorists agree that control processes are a critical
component of WM function. Some set of internal mechanisms must be responsible for (1) …

Participants memorized briefly presented sets of digits, a subset of which had to be
accessed as input for arithmetic tasks (the active set), whereas another subset had to be …

There is substantial debate over whether visual working memory (VWM) and visual attention
constitute a single system for the selection of task-relevant perceptual information or whether …

How does executive attentional control contribute to memory for sequences of visual objects,
and what does this reveal about storage and processing in working memory? Three …

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …