Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control

by Edited by Akira Miyake , Priti Shah

• ISBN13: 9780521587211
• ISBN10: 0521587212
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Working memory is currently a 'hot' topic in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Because of their radically different scopes and emphases, however, comparing different models and theories and understanding how they relate to one another has been a difficult task. This volume offers a much-needed forum for systematically comparing and contrasting existing models of working memory. It does so by asking each contributor to address the same comprehensive set of important theoretical questions on working memory. The answers to these questions provided in the volume elucidate the emerging general consensus on the nature of working memory among different theorists and crystallize incompatible theoretical claims that must be resolved in future research. As such, this volume serves not only as a milestone that documents the state-of-the-art in the field but also as a theoretical guidebook that will likely promote new lines of research and more precise and comprehensive models of working memory.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Models of Working Memory: An Introduction	1	(27)
Priti Shah
Akira Miyake
Working Memory: The Multiple-Component Model	28	(34)
Alan D. Baddeley
Robert H. Logie
An Embedded-Processes Model of Working Memory	62	(40)
Nelson Cowan
Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and What They Tell Us About Controlled Attention, General Fluid Intelligence, and Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex	102	(33)
Randall W. Engle
Michael J. Kane
Stephen W. Tuholski
Modeling Working Memory in a Unified Architecture: An ACT-R Perspective	135	(48)
Marsha C. Lovett
Lynne M. Reder
Christian Lebiere
Insights into Working Memory from the Perspective of the EPIC Architecture for Modeling Skilled Perceptual-Motor and cognitive Human Performance	183	(41)
David E. Kieras
David E. Meyer
Shane Mueller
Travis Seymour
The Soar Cognitive Architecture and Human Working Memory	224	(33)
Richard M. Young
Richard L. Lewis
Long-Term Working Memory as an Alternative to Capacity Models of Working Memory in Everyday Skilled Performance	257	(41)
K. Anders Ericsson
Peter F. Delaney
Interacting Cognitive Subsystems: Modeling Working Memory Phenomena Within a Multiprocessor Architecture	298	(42)
Philip J. Barnard
Working Memory in a Multilevel Hybrid Connectionist Control Architecture (CAP2)	340	(35)
Walter Schneider
A Biologically Based Computational Model of Working Memory	375	(37)
Randall C. O'Reilly
Todd S. Braver
Jonathan D. Cohen
Models of Working Memory: Eight Questions and Some General Issues	412	(30)
Walter Kintsch
Alice F. Healy
Mary Hegarty
Bruce F. Pennington
Timothy A. Salthouse
Toward Unified Theories of Working Memory: Emerging General Consensus, Unresolved Theoretical Issues, and Future Research Directions	442	(41)
Akira Miyake
Priti Shah
Name Index	483	(11)
Subject Index	494