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Working memory and second language comprehension and production: A meta-analysis by Linck, Jared A., Osthus, Peter, Koeth, Joel T., Bunting, Michael F.

“…Although working memory (WM) figures centrally in many theories of second language (L2) proficiency development and processing, some have argued that the…”
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Working memory span tasks : A methodological review and user's guide by CONWAY, Andrew R. A, KANE, Michael J, BUNTING, Michael F, HAMBRICK, D. Zach, WILHELM, Oliver, ENGLE, Randall W

“…Working memory (WM) span tasks-and in particular, counting span, operation span, and reading span tasks-are widely used measures of WM capacity. Despite their…”
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Hi-LAB: A New Measure of Aptitude for High-Level Language Proficiency by Linck, Jared A., Hughes, Meredith M., Campbell, Susan G., Silbert, Noah H., Tare, Medha, Jackson, Scott R., Smith, Benjamin K., Bunting, Michael F., Doughty, Catherine J.

“…Few adult second language (L2) learners successfully attain high‐level proficiency. Although decades of research on beginning to intermediate stages of L2…”
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The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: the importance of working memory capacity by Conway, A R, Cowan, N, Bunting, M F

“…Wood and Cowan (1995) replicated and extended Moray's (1959) investigation of the cocktail party phenomenon, which refers to a situation in which one can…”
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A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence by Conway, Andrew R.A, Cowan, Nelson, Bunting, Michael F, Therriault, David J, Minkoff, Scott R.B

“…Significant relationships exist between general fluid intelligence and each of the following constructs: short-term memory capacity, working memory capacity…”
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The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: Trade-offs between immediate and delayed deployment by F. Bunting, Michael, Cowan, Nelson, H. Colflesh, Greg

“…Memory at times depends on attention, as when attention is used to encode incoming, serial verbal information. When encoding and rehearsal are difficult or…”
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Clearing the garden-path: improving sentence processing through cognitive control training by Novick, Jared M., Hussey, Erika, Teubner-Rhodes, Susan, Harbison, J. Isaiah, Bunting, Michael F.

“…How do general-purpose cognitive abilities affect language processing and comprehension? Recent research emphasises a role for cognitive control-also called…”
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Alternatives to switch-cost scoring in the task-switching paradigm: Their reliability and increased validity by Hughes, Meredith M., Linck, Jared A., Bowles, Anita R., Koeth, Joel T., Bunting, Michael F.

“…In the task-switching paradigm, the latency switch-cost score— the difference in mean reaction time between switch and nonswitch trials —is the traditional…”
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Individual differences in the fan effect and working memory capacity by Bunting, Michael F., Conway, Andrew R.A., Heitz, Richard P.

“…In opposition to conceptualizing working memory (WM) in terms of a general capacity, we present four experiments that favor the view that individual…”
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The cognitive underpinnings of mental model construction in L1 and L2 by O’Rourke, Polly, Bunting, Michael F.

“…This study investigates the ability to create mental models and the role of working memory in mental model ability in the first and second language with…”
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Training working memory: Limits of transfer by Sprenger, Amber M., Atkins, Sharona M., Bolger, Donald J., Harbison, J. Isaiah, Novick, Jared M., Chrabaszcz, Jeffrey S., Weems, Scott A., Smith, Vanessa, Bobb, Steven, Bunting, Michael F., Dougherty, Michael R.

“…In two experiments (totaling 253 adult participants), we examined the extent to which intensive working memory training led to improvements on untrained…”
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Practice makes imperfect: Working memory training can harm recognition memory performance by Matzen, Laura E., Trumbo, Michael C., Haass, Michael J., Hunter, Michael A., Silva, Austin, Stevens-Adams, Susan M., Bunting, Michael F., O’Rourke, Polly

“…There is a great deal of debate concerning the benefits of working memory (WM) training and whether that training can transfer to other tasks. Although a…”
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Identifying Dimensions of Cyber Aptitude: The Design of the Cyber Aptitude and Talent Assessment by Campbell, Susan G., O’Rourke, Polly, Bunting, Michael F.

“…Cybersecurity is a broad and growing job field, encompassing many different job categories with different cognitive demands. Traditional, knowledge-based…”
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Individual Differences in Susceptibility to False Memory in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm by Watson, Jason M, Bunting, Michael F, Poole, Bradley J, Conway, Andrew R. A

“…The authors addressed whether individual differences in the working memory capacity (WMC) of young adults influence susceptibility to false memories for…”
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Measuring Working Memory Is All Fun and Games: A Four-Dimensional Spatial Game Predicts Cognitive Task Performance by Atkins, Sharona M., Sprenger, Amber M., Colflesh, Gregory J. H., Briner, Timothy L., Buchanan, Jacob B., Chavis, Sydnee E., Chen, Sy-yu, Iannuzzi, Gregory L., Kashtelyan, Vadim, Dowling, Eamon, Harbison, J. Isaiah, Bolger, Donald J., Bunting, Michael F., Dougherty, Michael R.

“…We developed a novel four-dimensional spatial task called Shapebuilder and used it to predict performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. In six…”
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An oscillatory Hebbian network model of short-term memory by Winder, Ransom K, Reggia, James A, Weems, Scott A, Bunting, Michael F

“…Recurrent neural architectures having oscillatory dynamics use rhythmic network activity to represent patterns stored in short-term memory. Multiple stored…”
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Strategy selection for cognitive skill acquisition depends on task demands and working memory capacity by Hinze, Scott R., Bunting, Michael F., Pellegrino, James W.

“…The involvement of working memory capacity (WMC) in ruled-based cognitive skill acquisition is well-established, but the duration of its involvement and its…”
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Working memory and flexibility in awareness and attention by Bunting, Michael F, Cowan, Nelson

“…We argue that attention and awareness form the basis of one type of working-memory storage. In contrast to models of working memory in which storage and…”
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Usability testing the Afghan Language Aptitude Battery: Evaluating Cognitive Tests for Non-Traditional Populations by Campbell, Susan G., Bunting, Michael F.

“…We present two closely-related approaches to product evaluation in less-commonly taught languages with native speaker informants and test participants. The…”
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The Deployment of Attention in Short-term Memory Tasks: Tradeoffs between Immediate and Delayed Deployment by Bunting, Michael F., Cowan, Nelson, Colflesh, Greg H.

“…Memory at times depends on attention, as when attention is used to encode incoming, serial verbal information. When encoding and rehearsal are difficult or…”
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