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Direct linkBall, B. Hunter; Vogel, Anne; Ellis, Derek M.; Brewer, Gene A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Research suggests that forcing participants to withhold responding for as brief as 600 ms eliminates one of the most reliable findings in prospective memory (PM): the cue focality effect. This result undermines the conventional view that controlled attentional monitoring processes support PM, and instead suggests that cue detection results from…
Descriptors: Memory, Attention Control, Cues, Individual Differences
Robison, Matthew K.; Brewer, Gene A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The present study examined individual differences in 3 cognitive abilities: attention control (AC), working memory capacity (WMC), and fluid intelligence (gF) as they relate the tendency to experience task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) and the regulation of arousal. Cognitive abilities were measured with a battery of 9 laboratory tasks, TUTs were…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Attention Control, Intelligence
Download full textEllis, Derek M.; Robison, Matthew K.; Brewer, Gene A. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Individuals encounter problems daily wherein varying numbers of constraints require delimitation of memory to target goal-satisfying information. Multiply-constrained problems, such as the compound remote associates, are commonly used to study this type of problem solving. Since their development, multiply-constrained problems have been…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Attention Control
Brewer, Gene A.; Unsworth, Nash – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The current study examined individual differences in the effects of retrieval from long-term memory (i.e., the testing effect). The effects of retrieving from memory make tested information more accessible for future retrieval attempts. Despite the broad applied ramifications of such a potent memorization technique there is a paucity of research…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Long Term Memory, Testing, Attention Control
Unsworth, Nash; Brewer, Gene A.; Spillers, Gregory J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The present study examined individual differences in everyday cognitive failures assessed by diaries. A large sample of participants completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory. Furthermore, a subset of these participants also recorded everyday cognitive failures (attention, retrospective memory, and prospective memory failures)…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Diaries
Unsworth, Nash; McMillan, Brittany D.; Brewer, Gene A.; Spillers, Gregory J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
The present study examined individual differences in everyday attention failures. Undergraduate students completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory and recorded everyday attention failures in a diary over the course of a week. The majority of attention failures were failures of distraction or mind wandering in educational…
Descriptors: Attention, Failure, Undergraduate Students, Individual Differences
