Working memory maturation: Can we get at the essence of cognitive growth?

N Cowan - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The theoretical and practical understanding of cognitive development depends on working
memory, the limited information temporarily accessible for such daily activities as language …

[HTML][HTML] On some statistical and cerebral aspects of the limits of Working Memory capacity in Anthropoid Primates, with particular reference to Pan and Homo, and their …

HM Manrique, DW Read, MJ Walker - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
Some comparative ontogenetic data imply that effective working-memory capacity develops
in ways that are independent of brain size in humans. These are interpreted better from …

Working memory development: A 50-year assessment of research and underlying theories

N Cowan - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

The development of metacognitive accuracy in working memory across childhood.

A Forsberg, CL Blume, N Cowan - Developmental Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Growth in working memory capacity, the number of items kept active in mind, is thought to be
an important aspect of childhood cognitive development. Here, we focused on participants' …

How do the object-file and physical-reasoning systems interact? Evidence from priming effects with object arrays or novel labels

Y Lin, J Li, Y Gertner, W Ng, CL Fisher… - Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
How do infants reason about simple physical events such as containment, tube, and support
events? According to the two-system model, two cognitive systems, the object-file (OF) and …

Catastrophic individuation failures in infancy: A new model and predictions.

M Stavans, Y Lin, D Wu, R Baillargeon - Psychological review, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Comparison of infant findings from the physical-reasoning and object-individuation
literatures reveals a contradictory picture. On the one hand, physical-reasoning results …

[图书][B] Working memory in development

V Camos, P Barrouillet - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Working memory is the system responsible for the temporary maintenance and processing
of information involved in most cognitive activities, and its study is essential to the …

Infants recognize counting as numerically relevant

J Wang, L Feigenson - Developmental science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Children do not understand the meanings of count words like “two” and “three” until the
preschool years. But even before knowing the meanings of these individual words, might …

Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report

A Forsberg, EJ Adams, N Cowan - Developmental science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how visual working memory (WM) develops with age across the early
elementary school period (6–7 years), early adolescence (11–13 years), and early …

Representations of abstract relations in infancy

JR Hochmann - Open Mind, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract relations are considered the pinnacle of human cognition, allowing for analogical
and logical reasoning, and possibly setting humans apart from other animal species. Recent …