The Nature of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity: Active Maintenance in Primary Memory and Controlled Search from Secondary Memory

Autor/inn/en	Unsworth, Nash; Engle, Randall W.
Titel	The Nature of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity: Active Maintenance in Primary Memory and Controlled Search from Secondary Memory
Quelle	In: Psychological Review, 114 (2007) 1, S.104-132 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-295X
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Short Term Memory; Attention; Correlation; Cues; Recall (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeit; Korrelation; Stichwort; Abberufung
Abstract	Studies examining individual differences in working memory capacity have suggested that individuals with low working memory capacities demonstrate impaired performance on a variety of attention and memory tasks compared with individuals with high working memory capacities. This working memory limitation can be conceived of as arising from 2 components: a dynamic attention component (primary memory) and a probabilistic cue-dependent search component (secondary memory). This framework is used to examine previous individual differences studies of working memory capacity, and new evidence is examined on the basis of predictions of the framework to performance on immediate free recall. It is suggested that individual differences in working memory capacity are partially due to the ability to maintain information accessible in primary memory and the ability to search for information from secondary memory. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10