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2008

Parker, S., Garry, M., Engle, R. W. Harper, D. N., & Clifasefi, S. L. (2008).  Psychotropic placebos reduce the misinformation effect by increasing monitoring at test.  Memory, 16, 410-419.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2008).  Speed and accuracy of accessing information in working memory:  An individual differences investigation of focus switching.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 616-630.

2007

Heitz, R. P. & Engle, R. W. (2007).  Focusing the spotlight:  Individual differences in visual attention control.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 217 - 240.

Heitz, R. P. ,Schrock, J. C. ,Payne, T. W. & Engle R. W. (2007).  Effects of incentive on working memory capacity:  Behavioral and pupillometric data.  Psychophysiology, 44, 1 – 11.

Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R.W. (2007).  Variation in working memory capacity as variation in executive attention and control.  In A.R.A. Conway, C.Jarrold, M.J. Kane, A. Miyake, and J.N. Towse (Eds.),  Variation in Working Memory (pp. 21 - 48).  NY:  Oxford University Press.

Redick, T. S., Heitz, R. P., & Engle, R. W. (2007). Working memory capacity and inhibition: Cognitive and social consequences. In D. S. Gorfein, & C. M. MacLeod (Eds.), Inhibition in cognition (pp. 125-1420). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2007).  On the division of short-term and working memory: An examination of simple and complex span and their relation to higher order ability.  Psychological Bulletin,133, 1038 - 1066.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2007). The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity:  Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.  Psychological Review, 114, 104 - 132.

Unsworth, N. & Engle, R.W. (2007).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and retrieval:  A Cue-dependent search approach.  In J.S. Nairne (Ed.),  The Foundations of Remembering:  Essays in Honor of Henry L. Roediger, III (pp. 241 - 258).  NY: Psychology Press.

2006

Heitz, R.P., Redick, T.S., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory, executive function, and general fluid intelligence are not the same.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 135-136.

Kane, M.J., Poole, B.J., Tuholski, S.W., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory capacity and the top-down control of visual search:  Exploring the boundaries of "executive attention."  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32, 749 - 777.

Redick, T.S., and Engle, R.W. (2006).  Working memory capacity and Attention Network Test performance.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 713 - 721.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2006).  A temporal-contextual retrieval account of complex span: An analysis of errors.  Journal  of Memory and Language, 54, 346 – 362.

Unsworth, N. and Engle, R.W. (2006).  Simple and complex memory spans and their relation to fluid abilities: Evidence from list-length effects.  Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 68 - 80. 

2005

Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 769 - 786.

Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  The role of working memory in higher-level cognition: Domain-specific versus domain-general perspectives. In R. Sternberg & J.E. Pretz (Eds.), Cognition and Intelligence: Identifying the Mechanisms of the Mind (pp. 104 - 121).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Heitz, R. P., Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  Working memory capacity, attentional control, and fluid intelligence.  In O. Wilhelm & R.W. Engle (Eds.), Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence (pp. 61-78).  London: Sage Publications.  

Murray, J. D., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Accessing situation model information: Memory-based processing versus here-and-now accounts.  The Journal of Psychology, 139, 261-272.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Working memory capacity and fluid abilities: Examining the correlation between Operation Span and Raven. Intelligence, 33, 67-81.

Unsworth, N., & Engle, R. W. (2005).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and learning: Evidence from the serial reaction time task.  Memory & Cognition, 33, 213-220.

Unsworth, N., Heitz, R.P., & Engle, R.W.  (2005).  Working memory capacity in hot and cold cognition.  In R.W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. Hecker, & D.N. McIntosh (Eds.),  Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology (pp. 19-43).  NY:  Cambridge University Press.

Unsworth, N., Heitz, R.P., Schrock, J.C., & Engle, R.W. (2005).  An automated version of the operation span task.  Behavior Research Methods, 37, 498 - 505. 

2004

Bleckley, M. K., Durso, F. T., Crutchfield, J. M., Engle, R. W., & Khanna, M. M. (2004).  Individual differences in working memory capacity predict visual attention allocation.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 884-889.

Engle, R. W., & Kane, M. J. (2004).  Executive attention, working memory capacity, and a two-factor theory of cognitive control.  In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 44, pp. 145-199).  NY: Elsevier.

Feldman-Barrett, L., Tugade, M. M., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 553-573.

Kane, M. J., Hambrick, D. Z., Tuholski, S. W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T. W., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  The generality of working memory capacity: A latent variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 189-217. 

Oberauer, K., Lange, E., & Engle, R.W. (2004).  Working memory capacity and resistance to interference.  Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 80 - 96.

Unsworth, N., Schrock, J. C., & Engle, R. W. (2004).  Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: Individual differences in voluntary saccade control.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 1302-1321.

2003

Conway, A. R. A., Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2003). Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 547-552.

Hambrick, D. Z., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  The role of working memory in problem solving.  In J. E. Davidson & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Problem Solving (pp. 176-206).  London: Cambridge Press.   

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  Working memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 47-70.

Mecklinger, A., Weber, K., Gunter, T. C., & Engle, R. W. (2003).  Dissociable brain mechanisms for inhibitory control: Effects of interference content and working memory capacity.  Cognitive Brain Research.  

2002

Engle, R. W. (2002). Working memory capacity as executive attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 19-23. 

Hambrick, D. Z., & Engle, R. W. (2002).  Effects of domain knowledge, working memory capacity, and age on cognitive performance: An investigation of the knowledge-is-power hypothesis.  Cognitive Psychology, 44, 339-387.

Kane, M. J. (2002, November).  Working memory capacity as a unitary attentional construct.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2002).  The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual differences perspective.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 637-671.

2001

Engle, R. W. (2001).  What is working-memory capacity?.  In H. L. Roediger III & J. S. Nairne (Eds.), The Nature of Remembering: Essays in Honor of Robert G. Crowder (pp. 297-314).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Kane, M. J., Bleckley, K. M., Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (2001).  A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 169-183.

Tuholski, S. W., Engle, R. W., & Baylis, G. C. (2001).  Individual differences in working memory capacity and enumeration.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 484-492.

2000

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2000).  Working-memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: Limits on long-term memory retrieval.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 336-358.

1999

Conway, A. R. A., Tuholski, S. W., Shisler, R. J. Engle, R. W. (1999). The effect of memory load on negative priming: An individual differences investigation. Memory & Cognition, 27, 1042-1050.

Engle, R. W., Kane, M. J., & Tuholski, S. W.  (1999). Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex.  In Miyake, A. & Shah, P. (Eds.), Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control (pp.102-134).  London: Cambridge Press.

Engle, R. W., & Oransky, N. (1999).  The evolution from short-term to working memory: Multi-store to dynamic models of temporary storage. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), The Nature of Cognition (pp. 514-555).  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Engle, R. W., Tuholski, S. W., Laughlin, J. E., & Conway, A. R. A. (1999).  Working memory, short-term memory and general fluid intelligence: A latent variable approach.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 309-331.

Kane, M. J., Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (1999).  What do working memory tests really measure?.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 101-102.

1998

Engle, R. W., & Conway, A. R. A. (1998).  Working memory and comprehension.  In R. H. Logie, & K. J. Gilhooly, (Eds.), Working Memory and Thinking (pp 67-92).  East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Rosen, V. M., & Engle, R. W. (1998).  Working memory capacity and suppression.  Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 418-436.

1997

Rosen, V. M., & Engle, R. W. (1997). Forward and backward serial recall.  Intelligence, 25, 37-47.

Rosen, V. M., & Engle, R. W. (1997). The role of working memory capacity in retrieval.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 211-227.

 1996

Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (1996).  Individual differences in working memory capacity: More evidence for a general capacity theory.  Memory, 4, 577-590.

Engle, R. W. (1996).  Working memory and retrieval: An inhibition-resource approach.  In J.T.E. Richardson, R.W. Engle, L. Hasher, R.H. Logie, E.R. Stoltzfus, & R.T. Zacks (Eds.), Working Memory and Human Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Richardson, J. T. E., Engle, R. W., Hasher, L., Logie, R. H., Stoltzfus, E. R., & Zacks, R. T. (1996).  Working memory and Human Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

1995

Engle, R. W., Conway, A. R. A., Tuholski, S. W., & Shisler, R. J. (1995).  A resource account of inhibition.  Psychological Science, 6, 122-125.

1994

Conway, A. R. A., & Engle, R. W. (1994).  Working memory and retrieval: A resource-dependent inhibition model.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 354-373.

Engle, R. W. (1994). Memory. In Robert J. Sternberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence (pg. 700-704), NY: Macmillan.

Turner, M. L., Schwartz, M. K., Clifton, G. E., & Engle, R. W. (1994).  Effects of vocabulary size and acoustic similarity on serial recall of mouthed stimuli.  Journal of General Psychology, 121, 361-376. 

1993

Cantor, J., & Engle, R. W. (1993).  Working memory capacity as long-term memory activation: An individual differences approach.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 19, 1101-1114.

1992

Engle, R. W., Cantor, J., & Carullo, J. (1992).  Individual differences in working memory and comprehension: A test of four hypotheses.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 18, 972-992.

Turner, M. L., Johnson, S. K., McNamara, D. S., & Engle, R. W. (1992).  Effects of same modality interference on immediate serial recall of auditory and visual information.  Journal of General Psychology, 119, 247-263.

1991

Cantor, J., Engle, R. W., Hamilton, G. (1991).  Short-term memory, working memory, and verbal abilities: How do they relate?.  Intelligence, 15, 229-246.

Engle, R. W., Carullo, J. J., & Collins, K. W. (1991).  Individual differences in the role of working memory in comprehension and following directions.  Journal of Educational Research, 84, 253-262.

Shimp, T. A., Stuart, E. W., & Engle, R. W. (1991).  A program of classical conditioning experiments testing variations in the conditioned stimulus and context.  Journal of Consumer Research, 18, 1-12.

1990

Balota, D. A., Cowan, N., & Engle, R. W. (1990).  Suffix interference in the recall of linguistically coherent speech.   Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory and Cognition, 16, 446-456.

Engle, R. W., Nations, J. K., & Cantor, J. (1990).  Is "working memory" capacity just another name for word knowledge? Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 799-804.

La Pointe, L. B., & Engle, R. W. (1990).  Simple and complex word spans as measures of working memory capacity.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 16, 1118-1133.

Stuart, E. W., Shimp, T. A., & Engle, R. W. (1990).  Classical conditioning of negative attitudes.  Advances in Consumer Research, 17, 536-540.

1989

Cantor, J., & Engle, R. W. (1989). The effects of concurrent load on mouthed and vocalized modality effects.  Memory & Cognition, 17, 701-711.

Engle, R. W., Cantor, J., & Turner, M. L. (1989).  Modality effects: Do they fall on deaf ears? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 273-292.

Turner, M. L., & Engle, R. W. (1989).  Is working memory capacity task dependent?.  Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 127-154.

1988

1987

Stuart, E. W., Shimp, T. A., & Engle, R. W. (1987).  Classical conditioning of consumer attitudes: Four experiments in an advertising context.  Journal of Consumer Research, 14, 334-349.

Turner, M. L., LaPointe, L. B., Cantor, J., Reeves, C. H., Griffeth, R. H., & Engle, R. W. (1987).  Recency and suffix effects found with auditory presentation and with mouthed visual presentation: They're not the same thing.  Journal of Memory and Language, 26, 138-164. 

1986

Sipe, S., & Engle, R. W. (1986).  Echoic memory processes in good and poor readers.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 402-412.

Turner, M. L., & Engle, R. W. (1986).  Working memory capacity.  Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 30, 1273-1277.

1985

1984

Dick, M. B., & Engle, R. W. (1984).  The effect of instruction with relational and item-specific elaborative strategies on young children's organization and free recall.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 282-302.

1983

Engle, R. W., & Marshall, K. (1983).  Do developmental changes in digit span result from acquisition strategies?.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 36, 429-436.

Greenberg, S. N., & Engle, R. W. (1983).  Voice change in the stimulus suffix effect: Are the effects structural or strategic?  Memory & Cognition, 11, 551-556.

1982

Engle, R. W., & Roberts, J. S. (1982).  How long does the modality effect persist?.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 19, 343-346.

Watson, E. S., & Engle, R. W. (1982).  Is it lateralization, processing strategies or both that distinguishes good and poor readers?.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 34, 1-19.

1981

Balota, D. A., & Engle, R. W. (1981).  Structural and strategic factors in the stimulus suffix effect.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 346-357. 

Engle, R. W., Fidler, D. S., & Reynolds L. H. (1981).  Does echoic memory develop?.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 32, 459-473.

Kramer, J. J., & Engle, R. W. (1981). Teaching awareness of strategic behavior in combination with strategic training: Effects on children's memory performance.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 32, 513-530.   

1980

Engle, R. W. (1980). The suffix effect: How many positions are involved?.  Memory & Cognition, 8, 247-252.

Engle, R. W., Clark, D. D., & Cathcart, J. S. (1980).  The modality effect: Is it a result of different strategies?.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 19, 226-239.

Engle, R. W., Nagle, R. J., & Dick, M. (1980).  Maintenance and generalization of a semantic rehearsal strategy in educable mentally retarded children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 30, 438-454.

Kramer, J. J., Nagle, R. J., & Engle, R. W. (1980).  Recent advances in mnemonic strategy training with the mentally retarded: Implications for the special educator.  American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 85, 306-314. 

1979

Engle, R. W., & Nagle, R. J. (1979).  Strategy training and semantic encoding in mildly retarded children.  Intelligence, 3, 17-30.

1978

Engle, R. W., & Bukstel, L. H. (1978).  Memory processes among bridge players of differing expertise.  American Journal of Psychology, 91, 673-689.

1977

Engle, R. W. (1977).  A developmental study of the Prelinguistic Auditory Store (PAS).  Intelligence, 1, 358-368.

Engle, R. W., & Durban, E. D. (1977).  Effects of modality of presentation on delayed recognition.  Perceptual and Motor Skill, 45, 1203-1210.

1976

Engle, R. W., & Mobley, L. A. (1976).  The modality effect: What happens in long-term memory?.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 15, 519-527.

1975

Engle, R. W. (1975).  Pupillary measurement and release from proactive inhibition.  Perceptual and Motor Skills, 41, 835-842.

1974

Engle, R. W. (1974).  Negative recency in delayed recognition.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 209-216.

Engle, R. W. (1974b). The modality effect: is precategorical acoustic storage responsible?.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 824-829.

1973

Engle, R. W. (1973).  The interaction between presentation rate, retention test and the negative recency effect.  Dissertation Abstracts International, 34(5-B), 2336.

1972

1971

1970

Wickens, D. D., & Engle, R. W. (1970).  Imagery and abstractness in short-term memory.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 84, 268-272.