Models of working memory : mechanisms of active maintenance and executive control /
edited by Akira Miyake and Priti Shah.
- xx, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Models of working memory: an introduction / Working memory: the multiple-component model / An embedded-processes model of working memory / Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex / Modelling working memory in a unified architecture: an ACT-R perspective / Insights into working memory from the perspective of the EPIC architecture for modelling skilled perceptual-motor and cognitive human performance / The soar cognitive architecture and human working memory / Long-term working memory as an alternative to capacity models of working memory in everyday skilled performance / Interacting cognitive subsystems: modelling working memory phenomena within a multiprocessor architecture / Working memory in a multilevel hybrid connectionist control architecture (CAP2) / A biologically based computational model of working memory / Models of working memory: eight questions and some general issues / Toward unified theories of working memory: emerging general consensus, unresolved theoretical issues and future research directions / Priti Shah and Akira Miyake -- Alan D. Baddeley and Robert H. Logie -- Nelson Cowan -- Randall W. Engle, Michael J. Kane and Stephen W. Tuholski -- Marsha C. Lovett, Lynne M. Reder and Christian Lebiere -- David E. Kieras, David E. Meyer, Shane Mueller and Travis Seymour -- Richard M. Young and Richard L. Lewis -- K. Anders Ericsson and Peter F. Delaney -- Philip J. Barnard -- Walter Schneider -- Randall C. O' Reilly, Todd S. Braver and Jonathan D. Cohen -- Walter Kintsch, Alice F. Healy, Mary Hegarty, Bruce F. Pennington and Timothy A. Salthouse -- Akika Miyake and Priti Shah. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
"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."--Publisher description.