Pierre Barrouillet

TL;DR: A new model that accounts for working memory spans in adults, the time-based resource-sharing model, is presented, which shows in 7 experiments thatWorking memory spans vary as a function of this cognitive load.

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: The author derive from the time-based resource-sharing model of working memory a mathematical function relating the cognitive load involved by concurrent processing to the amount of information that can be simultaneously maintained active in working memory.

TL;DR: High working memory capacity was associated with more frequent use of retrieval and faster responses in solving additions, and the effect of span on the use and speed of retrieval increased with the size of the minimum addend.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the interplay between two mechanisms of maintenance of verbal information in working memory, namely articulatory rehearsal as described in Baddeley's model, and attentional refreshing as postulated in Barrouillet and Camos's Time-Based Resource-Sharing (TBRS) model.