Publications

2000-2009

• 2009

Unsworth, N., Redick, T. S., Heitz, R. P., Broadway, J. M., & Engle, R. W. (2009). Complex working memory span tasks and higher-order cognition: A latent-variable analysis of the relationship between processing and storage. Memory, 17, 635 - 654.

Barch, D. M., Berman, M. G., Engle, R. W., Jones, J. H., Jonides, J., MacDonald, A. III, Nee, D. E.,  Redick, T. S., Sponheim, S. R., (2009).  CNTRICS final task selection:  Working memory. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, 136-152.

• 2008

Calderón-Garcidueñas, L.,  Mora-Tiscareño, A., Esperanza Ontiveros, E., Gómez-Garza, G., Barragán-Mejía, G., Broadway, J., Chapman, S., Valencia-Salazar, G., Jewells, V., Maronpot, R. R., Henríquez-Roldán, C., Pérez-Guillé, B., Torres-Jardón, R., Herrit. L., Brooks, D., Osnaya-Brizuela, N., Monroy, M. E., González-Maciel, A. G., Reynoso-Robles, R., Villarreal-Calderon, R., Solt, A., C., Engle, R. W., (2008).  Air pollution, cognitive deficits and brain abnormalities: A pilot study with children and dogs.  Brain and Cognition, 68, 117-127.

Parker, S., Garry, M., Engle, R. W. Harper, D. N., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2008).  Psychotropic placebos reduce the misinformation effect by increasing monitoring at test.  Memory, 16, 410-419.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2008).  Speed and accuracy of accessing information in working memory:  An individual differences investigation of focus switching.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 616-630.

• 2007

Heitz, R. P. & Engle, R. W. (2007).  Focusing the spotlight:  Individual differences in visual attention control.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 217 - 240.

Heitz, R. P. ,Schrock, J. C. ,Payne, T. W. & Engle R. W. (2007).  Effects of incentive on working memory capacity:  Behavioral and pupillometric data.  Psychophysiology, 44, 1 – 11.

Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R.W. (2007).  Variation in working memory capacity as variation in executive attention and control.  In A.R.A. Conway, C.Jarrold, M.J. Kane, A. Miyake, and J.N. Towse (Eds.),  Variation in Working Memory (pp. 21 - 48).  NY:  Oxford University Press.

Redick, T. S., Heitz, R. P., & Engle, R. W. (2007). Working memory capacity and inhibition: Cognitive and social consequences. In D. S. Gorfein, & C. M. MacLeod (Eds.), Inhibition in cognition (pp. 125-1420). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2007).  On the division of short-term and working memory: An examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order ability.  Psychological Bulletin,133, 1038 - 1066.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2007). The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity:  Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.  Psychological Review, 114, 104 - 132.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2007).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and retrieval:  A Cue-dependent search approach.  In J.S. Nairne (Ed.),  The Foundations of Remembering:  Essays in Honor of Henry L. Roediger, III (pp. 241 - 258).  NY: Psychology Press.

• 2006

Heitz, R.P., Redick, T.S., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory, executive function, and general fluid intelligence are not the same.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 135-136.

Kane, M.J., Poole, B.J., Tuholski, S.W., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory capacity and the top-down control of visual search:  Exploring the boundaries of "executive attention."  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32, 749 - 777.

Redick, T.S., and Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory capacity and Attention Network Test performance.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 713 - 721.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  A temporal-contextual retrieval account of complex span: An analysis of errors.  Journal  of Memory and Language, 54, 346 – 362.

Unsworth, N. and Engle, R.W. (2006).  Simple and complex memory spans and their relation to fluid abilities: Evidence from list-length effects.  Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 68 - 80. 

• 2005

Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 769 - 786.

Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  The role of working memory in higher-level cognition: Domain-specific versus domain-general perspectives. In R. Sternberg & J.E. Pretz (Eds.), Cognition and Intelligence: Identifying the Mechanisms of the Mind (pp. 104 - 121).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Heitz, R. P., Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  Working memory capacity, attentional control, and fluid intelligence.  In O. Wilhelm & R.W. Engle (Eds.), Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence (pp. 61-78).  London: Sage Publications.

Murray, J. D., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Accessing situation model information: Memory-based processing versus here-and-now accounts.  The Journal of Psychology, 139, 261-272.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Working memory capacity and fluid abilities: Examining the correlation between Operation Span and Raven. Intelligence, 33, 67-81.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and learning: Evidence from the serial reaction time task.  Memory & Cognition, 33, 213-220.

Unsworth, N., Heitz, R.P., & Engle, R.W.  (2005).  Working memory capacity in hot and cold cognition.  In R.W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. Hecker, & D.N. McIntosh (Eds.),  Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology (pp. 19-43).  NY:  Cambridge University Press.

Unsworth, N., Heitz, R.P., Schrock, J.C., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  An automated version of the operation span task.  Behavior Research Methods, 37, 498 - 505. 

• 2004

Bleckley, M. K., Durso, F. T., Crutchfield, J. M., Engle, R. W., & Khanna, M. M. (2004).  Individual differences in working memory capacity predict visual attention allocation.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 884-889.

Engle, R. W., & Kane, M. J. (2004).  Executive attention, working memory capacity, and a two-factor theory of cognitive control.  In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 44, pp. 145-199).  NY: Elsevier.

Feldman-Barrett, L., Tugade, M. M., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 553-573.

Kane, M. J., Hambrick, D. Z., Tuholski, S. W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T. W., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  The generality of working memory capacity: A latent variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 189-217. 

Oberauer, K., Lange, E., & Engle, R.W. (2004).  Working memory capacity and resistance to interference.  Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 80 - 96.

Unsworth, N., Schrock, J. C., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: Individual differences in voluntary saccade control.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 1302-1321.

• 2003

Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2003). Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 547-552.

Hambrick, D. Z., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  The role of working memory in problem solving.  In J. E. Davidson & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Problem Solving (pp. 176-206).  London: Cambridge Press. 

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  Working memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 47-70.

Mecklinger, A., Weber, K., Gunter, T. C., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  Dissociable brain mechanisms for inhibitory control: Effects of interference content and working memory capacity.  Cognitive Brain Research.  

• 2002

Engle, R. W. (2002). Working memory capacity as executive attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 19-23. 

Hambrick, D. Z., & Engle, R. W. (2002).  Effects of domain knowledge, working memory capacity, and age on cognitive performance: An investigation of the knowledge-is-power hypothesis.  Cognitive Psychology, 44, 339-387.

Kane, M. J. (2002, November).  Working memory capacity as a unitary attentional construct.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2002).  The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual differences perspective.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 637-671.

• 2001

  Engle, R. W. (2001).  What is working-memory capacity?.  In H. L. Roediger III & J. S. Nairne (Eds.), The Nature of Remembering: Essays in Honor of Robert G. Crowder (pp. 297-314).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

  Kane, M. J., Bleckley, K. M., Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (2001).  A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 169-183.

  Tuholski, S. W., Engle, R. W., & Baylis, G. C. (2001).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and enumeration.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 484-492.

   

• 2000

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2000).  Working-memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: Limits on long-term memory retrieval.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 336-358.