Working Memory State of the Science

by Logie, Robert; Camos, Valerie; Cowan, Nelson

• ISBN13: 9780198842286
• ISBN10: 0198842287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-01-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Robert Logie, Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh,Valerie Camos, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Fribourg,Nelson Cowan, Curators' Professor of Psychology, University of Missouri

Robert H Logie (PhD 1981, University College London, UK) is Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research has focused on human memory, especially working memory, across the adult lifespan in the healthy and damaged brain. He has published over 180 journal articles, 54 book chapters, and has authored or edited 19 books and special journal issues including the current volume. He is a former editor of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, elected member (2012-2017) and chair (2015) of the Psychonomic Society, member (2009-2015) and chair (2015) of a European Research Council Advance Grants Panel, and currently is an Associate Editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Arts, the British Psychological Society, and an Honorary Member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.


Val?rie Camos is professor of developmental psychology at the Universit? of Fribourg (Switzerland) where she created the Fribourg Center for Cognition, a multidisciplinary research centre. She was previously professor at the Universit? de Bourgogne (France), junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and Chevalier de l'Ordre du M?rite (French honorific order for distinguished achievement). She authored 100 journal papers and 30 book chapters on working memory and mathematical cognition. She is associate editor of L'Ann?e Psychologique, was associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, and on the board of Current Directions in Psychological Science. She was on the governing board of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, and heads EWOMS (European Working Memory Symposium).

Nelson Cowan (Ph.D. 1980, University of Wisconsin) is Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri, where he has taught since 1985. He authored Attention and memory: An integrated framework (1995, Oxford University Press), Working memory capacity (2016, Psychology Press and Routledge Classic Edition), and over 240 journal articles and 60 book chapters on working memory, its relation to attention, and their childhood development. He has done collaborative work on amnesia, schizophrenia, dyslexia, and language impairment. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1984. Dr. Cowan was President of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association (Experimental Psychology, 2008-2009) and an elected member of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (2006-2011). He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki, Finland (2003) and the University of Li?ge, Belgium (2015).

Table of Contents

Foreword, Priti Shah and Akira Miyake
1. The State of the Science of Working Memory: An introduction, Robert H. Logie, Val?rie Camos, and Nelson Cowan
2. A Multicomponent Model of Working Memory, Alan Baddeley, Graham Hitch, and Richard Allen
3. An Embedded-Processes Approach to Working Memory: How is it distinct from other approaches, and to what ends?, Nelson Cowan, Candice C. Morey, and Moshe Naveh-Benjamin
4. The time-based resource-sharing model of working memory, Pierre Barrouillet and Val?rie Camos
5. Towards a Theory of Working Memory: From metaphors to mechanisms, Klaus Oberauer
6. Multi-component Working Memory System with distributed executive, Andr? Vandierendonck
7. Individual differences in attention control: Implications for the relationship between working memory capacity and fluid intelligence, Cody A. Mashburn, Jason S. Tsukahara, and Randall W. Engle
8. Working Memory and Expertise: An ecological perspective, David Z. Hambrick, Alexander P. Burgoyne, & Duarte Araujo
9. Domain-Specific Working Memory: Perspectives from cognitive neuropsychology, Randi C. Martin, Brenda Rapp, & Jeremy Purcell
10. Remembering Over the Short and Long Term: Empirical continuities and theoretical implications, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Alexandru D. Iordan
11. Manifold visual working memory, Nicole Hakim, Edward Awh, and Edward K. Vogel
12. Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory, Bradley R. Postle
13. A Dynamic Field Theory of visual working memory, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar and John Spencer
14. Integrating theories of working memory, Robert H Logie, Cl?ment Belletier, and Jason M Doherty