Evie Vergauwe

TL;DR: The present study demonstrates that the disruptive effect on concurrent maintenance of memory retrievals and response selections increases with their duration, and suggests a sequential and time-based function of working memory in which processing and storage rely on a single and general purpose attentional resource needed to run executive processes devoted to constructing, maintaining, and modifying ephemeral representations.

TL;DR: A set of benchmarks for theories and computational models of short-term and working memory are proposed, described in as theory-neutral a way as possible, so that they can serve as empirical common ground for competing theoretical approaches.

TL;DR: Though preschoolers seem to adopt a serial control without any attempt to refresh stored items when engaged in processing, the reactivation process is efficient from age 7 onward and increases in efficiency until late adolescence, underpinning a sizable part of developmental differences.

TL;DR: The Psychological Science Accelerator is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects that will advance understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematic examination of its generalizability.

TL;DR: Both verbal and visuospatial recall performance decreased as a direct function of increasing cognitive load, regardless of the nature of the information concurrently processed, and the observed trade-offs suggest strongly thatverbal and visUospatial activities compete for a common domain-general pool of resources.