Nelson Cowan

NeurosciencePsychology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Driven by 36 papers. Top paper: “The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity”.

The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity

Behavioral and Brain Sciences(2001)10.1017/s0140525x01003922

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1.3DataRank · unranked

6745 citations

Nelson Cowan

A consensus-based transparency checklist

Nature Human Behaviour(2019)10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6

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0.775DataRank · unranked

174 citations

Barnabás Szászi, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Zoltan Kekecs, Šimon Kucharský, Daniel J. Benjamin +72 more

The Relation Between Attention and Memory

Annual Review of Psychology(2023)10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736

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0.688DataRank · unranked

97 citations

Chenye Bao, Brittney M. Bishop-Chrzanowski, Amy Costa, Nathaniel R. Greene, Dominic Guitard +4 more

Exploring the use of phonological and semantic representations in working memory.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition(2022)10.1037/xlm0001077

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0.442DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nathaniel R. Greene, Sylvain Fiset, Nelson Cowan

Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall

Journal of Cognition and Development(2022)10.1080/15248372.2022.2083140

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0.312DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Emily M. Elliott, Candice C. Morey, Christopher Jarrold, Nelson Cowan, Eryn J. Adams +31 more

Discrepancies in Objective and Subjective Cognition in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Does Personality Matter?

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine(2023)10.1177/23337214221146663

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0.269DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Lauren M. Nowakowski, Christina S. McCrae, Nelson Cowan, Ashley Curtis, Amy Costa

Short-term retention of words as a function of encoding depth

Memory & Cognition(2024)10.3758/s13421-024-01546-3

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0.169DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan, C. Lawrence

Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist

Nature Human Behaviour(2019)10.1038/s41562-019-0812-2

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Barnabás Szászi, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Zoltan Kekecs, Šimon Kucharský, Daniel J. Benjamin +72 more

0563 Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Insomnia (TRAIN-MCI): Preliminary Effects on Cognition and Sleep

SLEEP(2025)10.1093/sleep/zsaf090.0563

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0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Amy Costa, Madison Musich, Lauren Nowakowski, Kobe Young, Kenda R. Eberhardt +4 more

Attention allocation between item and order information in short-term memory

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology(2022)10.1177/17470218221118451

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9 citations

Nelson Cowan, Dominic Guitard

Why does visual working memory ability improve with age: More objects, more feature detail, or both? A registered report

Developmental Science(2022)10.1111/desc.13283

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15 citations

Eryn J. Adams, Nelson Cowan, Alicia Forsberg

The tradeoff between item and order information in short-term memory does not depend on encoding time.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance(2022)10.1037/xhp0001074

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12 citations

Nelson Cowan, Dominic Guitard

Tradeoffs between item and order information in short-term memory

Journal of Memory and Language(2021)10.1016/j.jml.2021.104300

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13 citations

Jean Saint‐Aubin, Nelson Cowan, Dominic Guitard

Deconfounding serial recall: Response timing and the overarching role of grouping.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition(2022)10.1037/xlm0001157

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5 citations

Emily M. Elliott, Nelson Cowan

The adversarial collaboration within each of us. Comment on Clark et al.

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition(2022)10.1037/mac0000001

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0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Nelson Cowan

Constraints of attention, stimulus modality, and feature similarity in working memory

Attention Perception & Psychophysics(2022)10.3758/s13414-022-02549-5

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Nelson Cowan, Li Yu

Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder

Journal of Child Language(2022)10.1017/s0305000922000435

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Mary Alt, Shelley Gray, Tiffany P. Hogan, Samuel GREEN, Nelson Cowan +1 more

0313 The Role of Objective Sleep on Subjective and Objective Cognition in Older Adults with Insomnia: A Pilot Study

SLEEP(2022)10.1093/sleep/zsac079.311

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Madison Musich, Dakota Knous, Christina S. McCrae, Nelson Cowan, Ashley Curtis +1 more

A preregistered replication and extension of the cocktail party phenomenon: One’s name captures attention, unexpected words do not.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition(2020)10.1037/xlm0000874

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0DataRank · unranked

30 citations

Nelson Cowan, Jan Philipp Röer

Disentangling processing and storage accounts of working memory development in childhood

Developmental Review(2023)10.1016/j.dr.2023.101089

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0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Nelson Cowan, Luísa Superbia-Guimarães

Asymmetrical interference between item and order information in short-term memory.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition(2020)10.1037/xlm0000956

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0DataRank · unranked

19 citations

Jean Saint‐Aubin, Nelson Cowan, Dominic Guitard

Generalization of Skill for a Working Memory Recognition Procedure in Children: The Benefit of Starting with Easy Materials

Journal of Intelligence(2023)10.3390/jintelligence11030056

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Nelson Cowan, Chenye Bao

Theories of consciousness from the perspective of an embedded processes view.

Psychological Review(2024)10.1037/rev0000510

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0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Nick I. Ahmed, Chenye Bao, Mackenzie N. Cissne, Ronald D Flores, Roman M. Gutierrez +9 more

A lifespan study of the confidence–accuracy relation in working memory and episodic long-term memory.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General(2024)10.1037/xge0001551

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7 citations

Alicia Forsberg, Dominic Guitard, Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin, Nelson Cowan, Nathaniel R. Greene

Encoding colors and tones into working memory concurrently: A developmental investigation

Developmental Science(2024)10.1111/desc.13552

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan

Working memory limitations constrain visual episodic long-term memory at both specific and gist levels of representation

Memory & Cognition(2024)10.3758/s13421-024-01593-w

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0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Dominic Guitard, Alicia Forsberg, Nelson Cowan, Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin, Nathaniel R. Greene

Working memory limits severely constrain long-term retention

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review(2020)10.3758/s13423-020-01847-z

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0DataRank · unranked

65 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan, Alicia Forsberg

Working Memory Limitations Constrain Visual Episodic Long-Term Memory at Both Specific and Gist Levels of Representation

PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)(2024)10.31234/osf.io/xead5

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Dominic Guitard, Alicia Forsberg, Nelson Cowan, Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin, Nathaniel R. Greene

Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children

Bilingualism Language and Cognition(2024)10.1017/s1366728924000580

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

DeAnne R. Hunter, Roy Levy, Sarah Lynn Neiling, Kimberly Leon, Genesis D. Arizmendi +3 more

Differential information transfer and loss between working memory and long-term memory across serial positions.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition(2025)10.1037/xlm0001437

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7 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nathaniel R. Greene, Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin, Nelson Cowan, Alicia Forsberg

Similar working memory outcomes with successive versus concurrent presentation of tones and colors

Attention Perception & Psychophysics(2025)10.3758/s13414-025-03036-3

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2 citations

Dominic Guitard, Nelson Cowan

Restoring a top-down control assumption: Salience effects in working memory are overcome with time.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General(2025)10.1037/xge0001776

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2 citations

Nelson Cowan, Nicholas Gaspelin

Children’s use of semantic elaboration in immediate serial order memory

Cognitive Development(2025)10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101641

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Reese Lavers, Maya Steiger, Kellen Dane Hendrix, Bret A. Glass, Nelson Cowan +1 more

Object- and feature-based working memory limits for pairs of complex objects and their development during the school years

Cognition(2025)10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106163

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Li Yu, Nelson Cowan, Chenye Bao

Colors, Characters, Locations, and Shapes: The Capacity of Working Memory for Multiple, Dissimilar Sets of Items

White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)(2025)10.31234/osf.io/ax3eh_v1

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Nelson Cowan, Luísa Superbia-Guimarães

Attention effects in working memory that are asymmetric across sensory modalities

Memory & Cognition(2021)10.3758/s13421-021-01142-9

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0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Nelson Cowan, Li Yu