Nelson Cowan, Chenye Bao, Brittney M Bishop-Chrzanowski, Amy N Costa, Nathaniel R Greene, Dominic Guitard, Chenyuan Li, Madison L Musich, Zehra E Ünal
The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental psychology laboratory by Wilhelm Wundt and his colleagues. Since then, the importance of the relation between attention and memory has been explored in myriad subdisciplines of psychology, and we incorporate a wide range of these diverse fields. Here, we examine some of the practical consequences of this relation and summarize work with various methodologies relating attention to memory in the fields of working memory, long-term memory, individual differences, life-span development, typical brain function, and neuropsychological conditions...
January 18, 2024: Annual Review of Psychology