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The Relationship between Attention and Working Memory
In: New Research on Short-Term Memory ISBN 978-1-60456-548-5 Editor: Noah B. Johansen, pp. 2008 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Chapter 1 The Relationship between Attention and Working Memory Daryl Fougnie Vanderbilt University Abstract The ability to selectively process information ( Attention ) and to retain information in an accessible state ( Working Memory ) are critical aspects of our cognitive capacities. While there has been much work devoted to understanding Attention and Working Memory , the nature of the Relationship between these constructs is not well understood. Indeed, while neither Attention nor Working Memory represent a uniform set of processes, theories of their Relationship tend to focus on only some aspects.
While theories on the relationship between WM and attention (Cowan, 1995; Duncan, 1996; Rensink, 2002), suggest a close connection, even isomorphism, between the two constructs, the available evidence suggests important distinctions. I will propose that attention is only minimally involved in WM maintenance, but it is important for the encoding and
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