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Compare multicomponent, attention-based, persistent-activity and activity-silent accounts of working memory.
Start with the difference between a task, a behavioural measure and a neural recording. Basic probability and neuroscience vocabulary help with later papers.
A task analysis showing how competing models explain a delayed-response experiment.
Start here if the background is new. Equivalent experience is enough.
Distinguish a measured task result from a population claim when comparing experiments.
Alan Baddeley · book · 1986
Working-memory components and a delayed-response task
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Open the readingWorking Memory. Use a delayed-response example to distinguish retention, attention and task control.
Patricia Goldman-Rakic · paper · 1995
Delay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts
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Open the readingEarl K. Miller et al. · paper · 2018
Delay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts
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Open the readingCellular basis of working memory. Trace the delay-period observations and the inference about how information is retained.
Working Memory 2.0. Identify how the dynamic-maintenance account differs from a simple sustained-activity explanation.
Mark Stokes · paper · 2015
Predictions for recordings and perturbations during a delay
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Open the readingPatricia Goldman-Rakic · paper · 1995
Delay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts
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Open the reading“Activity-silent” working memory in prefrontal cortex: a dynamic coding framework. Compare the proposed silent state with what a recording or a perturbation could reveal.
Cellular basis of working memory. Trace the delay-period observations and the inference about how information is retained.
Nelson Cowan · paper · 2001
Capacity measures, attention and task strategies
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Open the readingRobert Logie · Valérie Camos · Nelson Cowan · book · 2021
Capacity measures, attention and task strategies
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Open the readingWorking Memory Capacity. Ask how grouping, attention and the task affect the reported capacity estimate.
Working Memory: The State of the Science. Choose a task-design discussion and identify an alternative explanation of performance.
Editorial perspectives based on selected works, rather than author-endorsed reading lists.
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Earl K. Miller.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Patricia Goldman-Rakic.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Nelson Cowan.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Use a delayed-response example to distinguish retention, attention and task control.
Working-memory components and a delayed-response task
Trace the proposed link between task rules, control and neural activity.
Prefrontal control and synaptic maintenance models
Identify how the dynamic-maintenance account differs from a simple sustained-activity explanation.
Delay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts
Ask how grouping, attention and the task affect the reported capacity estimate.
Capacity measures, attention and task strategies
Compare the proposed silent state with what a recording or a perturbation could reveal.
Predictions for recordings and perturbations during a delay
Identify the proposed storage mechanism and a prediction that distinguishes it from continuous firing.
Prefrontal control and synaptic maintenance models
Choose a task-design discussion and identify an alternative explanation of performance.
Capacity measures, attention and task strategies
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.
Selected chapters and argument
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.
Named section and worked examples
Trace the delay-period observations and the inference about how information is retained.
Delay-period recordings and dynamic maintenance accounts
Use a delayed-response task to compare predictive accounts with other explanations of memory.
Distinguish behavioural performance and neural measures from claims about experience.