Randall
W. Engle, Ph.D.
Professor
and Chair, School of Psychology
I am interested in individual and developmental differences in working memory capacity, what those differences mean about the nature of working memory and the underlying causes of those differences. I have argued that working memory capacity is the same as central executive capability, controlled attention and general fluid intelligence (Engle, Kane, & Tuholski, 1999). As such, I argue that individual differences in working memory capacity reflect differences in functioning of the normal frontal lobes.