Includes bibliographical references and index.

Working memory : past, present, and future? / Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch -- What do working memory span tasks like reading span really measure? / Meredyth Daneman and Brenda Hannon -- What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us? / Nelson Cowan ... [et al.] -- The time-based resource-sharing model of working memory / Pierre Barrouillet and Valérie Camos -- The ins and outs of working memory : dynamic processes associated with focus switching and search / Paul Verhaeghen ... [et al.] -- Neural bases of focusing attention in working memory : an fMRI study based on individual differences / Mariko Osaka and Naoyuki Osaka -- Separating processing from storage in working memory operation span / Robert H. Logie and Simon C. Duff -- The interpretation of temporal isolation effects / Stephan Lewandowsky, Tarryn Wright, and Gordon D.A. Brown -- Working memory and short-term memory storage : what does backward recall tell us? / Gerald Tehan and Kaye Mills -- Accounting for age-related differences in working memory using the feature model / Ian Neath and Aimée M. Surprenant -- Implications from cognitive neuropsychology for models of short-term and working memory / Randi C. Martin and A. Cris Hamilton

Working memory has been one of the most intensively studied systems in cognitive psychology. It is only relatively recently however that researchers have been able to study the neural processes which might underlie working memory, leading to a proliferation of research in this domain. This book brings together researchers from around the world to summarise current knowledge of this field, and directions for future research. The opening chapter sets the context for the subsequent chapters. The scope of the book is broad, providing a showcase for research on all contemporary concepts of working memory, using techniques from experimental psychology, single-cell recording, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroimaging and computational modelling.

Top-down modulation in visual working memory / Adam Gazzaley and Mark D'Esposito -- The general-purpose working memory system and functions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex / Shintaro Funahashi -- Visuospatial rehearsal processes in working memory / David G. Pearson -- Towards a multicomponent view of executive control: the case of response selection / André Vandierendonck ... [et al.] -- Relational processing is fundamental to the central executive and is limited to four variables / Graeme S. Halford ... [et al.] -- A neural efficiency hypothesis of age-related changes in human working memory performance / Bart Rypma -- Intersecting the divide between working memory and episodic memory : evidence from sustained and transient brain activity patterns / Petter Marklund and Lars Nyberg -- 'Activated long-term memory'? : the bases of representation in working memory / Bradley R. Postle -- Activation, binding, and selective access : an embedded three-component framework for working memory / Klaus Oberauer -- A hierarchical biased-competition model of domain-dependent working memory maintenance and executive control / Susan M. Courtney, Jennifer K. Roth, and Joseph B. Sala.