Randall W. Engle

TL;DR: The authors argue that working memory capacity and fluid intelligence reflect the ability to keep a representation active, particularly in the face of interference and distraction, and discuss the relationship of this capability to controlled attention, and the functions of the prefrontal cortex.

TL;DR: The genesis of these tasks is reviewed and how and why they came to be so influential, the reliability and validity of the tasks are addressed, and more technical aspects are considered, such as optimal administration and scoring procedures.

TL;DR: This article showed that individual differences in working memory capacity are reflected in performance on antisaccade, Stroop, and dichotic listening tasks, and that WM capacity, or executive attention, is most important under conditions in which interference leads to retrieval of response tendencies that conflict with the current task.

TL;DR: This article investigated correlations between the complex span and reading comprehension depend on the nature of the secondary task and individual skill in that task, and found that the correlation was a function of the difficulty of the background task.

TL;DR: Although the dorsolateral PFC is but one critical structure in a network of anterior and posterior “attention control” areas, it does have a unique executiveattention role in actively maintaining access to stimulus representations and goals in interference-rich contexts.