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Working memory capacity /

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184169097X

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9781841690971

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b770513

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Working memory capacity /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nelson Cowan.

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New York :

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Psychology Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

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ix, 246 pages :

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illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Essays in cognitive psychology

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and indexes.

Text of Note

The problem of capacity limits. Working memory capacity and the full brain ; Broad and narrow definitions of capacity ; In search of capacity measures ; Three attitudes: naive constancy, relativity, and refined constancy ; History of working-memory research: alternative terms and concepts ; History of research on immediate-memory capacity -- The present theoretical approach. A more general level of analysis ; Embedded processes ; Formation of new links in working memory ; Capacity limit of the attentional focus ; Resource sharing between storage and processing ; Flexibility in the scope of attention ; Some unresolved issues of the present approach -- Capacity limits and the measurement of chunking. Past approaches to the measurement of chunking ; Chunks, associations, templates, and retrieval structures ; Demonstrations of a constant capacity in verbal recall ; The domains of capacity and of time -- Capacity limits in unstructured materials. The review by Broadbent (1975) ; The review by Cowan (2001) ; Continuing evidence ; Chunk limits and feature-content limits -- Other views of capacity limits. The seven-item view ; The one-memory view ; The unlimited-memory view ; The multiple-capacities view ; The view of separate storage and processing limits ; The task-specific capacity view ; The one-chunk view ; The one-chunk center, four-chunk surround view ; The two-chunk view ; The binding-limit view -- Why the capacity limit? Efficient causes (determiners) of capacity limits ; Formal causes (models) of capacity limits ; Material causes (mechanisms) of capacity limits ; Final causes (functions) of capacity limits ; Reconciliation between types of causation -- Epilogue: working-memory capacity, life, death, and cars.

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"The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold temporarily in an especially accessible form for use in the completion of almost any challenging cognitive task."

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"This book explains the evidence supporting Cowan's theoretical proposal about working memory capacity, and compares it to competing perspectives. Cognitive psychologists profoundly disagree on how working memory is limited: whether by the number of units that can be retained (and, if so, what kind of units and how many?), the types of interfering material, the time that has elapsed, some combination of these mechanisms, or none of them. The book assesses these hypotheses and examines explanations of why capacity limits occur, including vivid biological, cognitive, and evolutionary accounts. The book concludes with a discussion of the practical importance of capacity limits in daily life."--Jacket.

Short-term memory.

Memory, Short-Term.

Psychological Theory.

Mémoire immédiate.

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Arbeitsgedächtnis.

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Gedächtnisleistung.

Kortetermijngeheugen.

Kurzzeitgedächtnis

Kurzzeitgedächtnis.

Short-term memory.

Werkgeheugen.

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Cowan, Nelson.

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20201206164231.0

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