Integrating working memory capacity and context-processing views of cognitive control.

Individuals low in working memory capacity (WMC) exhibit impaired performance on a variety of cognitive control tasks. The executive-attention theory of WMC (Engle & Kane, [2004[) accounts for these findings as failures of goal maintenance and response conflict resolution. Similarly, the context-pro...

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Published in:	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 64; no. 6; pp. 1048 - 1056
Main Authors:	Redick, Thomas S., Engle, Randall W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd June 2011
Subjects:	Short-term memory Cognition Context effects (Psychology)
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