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McVay, Jennifer C.; Kane, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
A combined experimental, individual-differences, and thought-sampling study tested the predictions of executive attention (e.g., Engle & Kane, 2004) and coordinative binding (e.g., Oberauer, Suss, Wilhelm, & Sander, 2007) theories of working memory capacity (WMC). We assessed 288 subjects' WMC and their performance and mind-wandering rates…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Reaction Time, Short Term Memory, Predictor Variables