capacity resource theory
Capacity and resource theory of attention and mental workload: limited-capacity models of cognition, multiple-resource theory, unitary capacity and mental effort, resource allocation and competition, and the theoretical basis of mental workload as demand on limited processing resources. The foundational theory of cognitive limitation. Unlike dual_task_multitasking, which is the empirical performance of concurrent tasks, this is the theoretical account of why interference arises; unlike workload_measurement, which quantifies demand in a specific study, this is the construct and theory of capacity itself; unlike executive_function, which names control operations, this names the limited resource those operations draw upon.
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Multiple Resources and Mental Workload · 2008 · Wickens, Christopher D. · archived
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Malleable Attentional Resources Theory: A New Explanation for the Effects of Mental Underload on Performance · 2002 · Young, Mark S. et al. · archived
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Dissociation of Performance and Subjective Measures of Workload ↗ · 1988 · Yeh, Yei-Yu et al. · indexed
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Working Memory Capacity · 2016 · Cowan, Nelson · archived
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Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort ↗ · 2017 · Shenhav, Amitai et al. · indexed
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Cognitive Load in Cross‐Modal Dual‐Task Processing ↗ · 2015 · Morrison, Natalie M. V. et al. · indexed
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The Dissociation between Subjective Workload and Performance: A Multiple Resource Approach ↗ · 1983 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
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Working Memory Capacity · 2010 · Cowan, Nelson · archived
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Threaded cognition: An integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. ↗ · 2008 · Salvucci, Dario D. et al. · indexed
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Evolution of Models of Working Memory and Cognitive Resources ↗ · 2016 · Wingfield, Arthur · indexed
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Is Attention Really Effort? Revisiting Daniel Kahneman's Influential 1973 Book Attention and Effort · 2018 · Bruya, Brian et al. · archived
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On the Rational Boundedness of Cognitive Control: Shared Versus Separated Representations ↗ · 2020 · Musslick, Sebastian et al. · indexed
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Dual-Task Performance: Theoretical Analysis and an Event-Coding Account · 2020 · Hommel, Bernhard · archived
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The Multiple Resource Theory and Model. Some Misconceptions in Data Interpretations ↗ · 2024 · Wickens, Christopher D. · indexed
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How Many Resources and How to Identify Them? Commentary on Boles et al. and Vidulich and Tsang ↗ · 2007 · Wickens, Christopher D. · indexed
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Working Memory Capacity as Executive Attention · 2002 · Engle, Randall W · archived
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The Measurement of Attention Capacity through Concurrent Task Performance with Individual Difficulty Levels and Shifting Priorities ↗ · 1974 · Gopher, Daniel et al. · indexed
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Attentional Limitations in Doing Two Tasks at the Same Time · 1992 · Pashler, Harold · archived
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As Time Goes By · 2012 · Barrouillet, Pierre et al. · archived
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State of science: mental workload in ergonomics · 2014 · Young, Mark S. et al. · archived
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Dual-task interference in simple tasks: Data and theory. · 1994 · Pashler, Harold · archived
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Engaging the human operator: a review of the theoretical support for the vigilance decrement and a discussion of practical applications ↗ · 2019 · Neigel, Alexis R. et al. · indexed
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Mapping between cognitive theories and psycho-physiological models of attention system performance ↗ · 2023 · Guidetti, Oliver A et al. · indexed
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Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review · 2019 · Oberauer, Klaus · archived
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On the law relating processing to storage in working memory. · 2011 · Barrouillet, Pierre et al. · archived
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Time Constraints and Resource Sharing in Adults' Working Memory Spans. ↗ · 2004 · Barrouillet, Pierre et al. · indexed
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Cognitive workload measurement and modeling under divided attention. · 2019 · Strayer, David L. et al. · archived
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Competing for cognitive resources: Measuring workload in a time pressured dual-task environment. · 2018 · Strayer, David L. et al. · archived
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The Magical Mystery Four · 2010 · Cowan, Nelson · archived
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Competing task and attentional resources: Exploring the limits of primary-secondary paradigm ↗ · 1987 · Stankov, Lazar · indexed
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Working memory’s workload capacity · 2015 · Strayer, David L. et al. · archived
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Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and Dual-Process Theories of the Mind. · 2004 · Engle, Randall W · archived
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A central capacity sharing model of dual-task performance. ↗ · 2003 · Tombu, Michael et al. · indexed
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Predictive Performance Models and Multiple Task Performance ↗ · 1989 · Wickens, Christopher D. et al. · indexed
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Executive Attention, Working Memory Capacity, and a Two-Factor Theory of Cognitive Control · 2003 · Engle, Randall W · archived
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Working memory capacity and the top-down control of visual search: Exploring the boundaries of "executive attention". ↗ · 2006 · Kane, Michael J. et al. · indexed
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Is there a Relationship between Task Demand and Storage Space in Tests of Working Memory Capacity? ↗ · 1995 · Towse, John N. et al. · indexed
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Corrigendum: Human mental workload: A survey and a novel inclusive definition · 2022 · Longo, Luca et al. · archived
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Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision · 2008 · Bays, Paul M. et al. · archived
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Event-Related Brain Potentials and Resource Allocation: From Dual-Task Decrements to Dual-Task Integrality ↗ · 1985 · Kramer, Arthur F. et al. · indexed
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The multicomponent model of working memory fifty years on · 2024 · Hitch, Graham J. et al. · archived
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Predicting Dual-Task Performance With the Multiple Resources Questionnaire (MRQ) ↗ · 2007 · Boles, David B. et al. · indexed
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The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource ↗ · 2009 · Bays, Paul M. et al. · indexed
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Precision of phonological errors in aphasia supports resource models of phonological working memory in language production ↗ · 2023 · Black, Jenah et al. · indexed
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Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity and What They Tell Us About Controlled Attention, General Fluid Intelligence, and Functions of the Prefrontal Cortex · 1999 · Engle, Randall W. et al. · archived
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Symbiosis of executive and selective attention in working memory · 2014 · Vandierendonck, André · archived
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Graded capacity-sharing in dual-task interference? · 1994 · Pashler, Harold · archived
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Visual Working Memory Performance is Determined by the Allocation of Attentional Resources: Evidence from Probabilistic Cueing ↗ · 2015 · Lockhart, Holly et al. · indexed
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Resource or slot model in visual working memory: Are they different? ↗ · 2024 · Hojjati, Fatemeh et al. · indexed
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Cognitive control and capacity for prospective memory in complex dynamic environments. · 2019 · Boag, Russell J. et al. · archived
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Processing resource demands of failure detection in dynamic systems. ↗ · 1979 · Wickens, C. D. et al. · indexed
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An Expansive Survey, in Clear and Vivid Form: Proctor and Vu's (2023) <i>Attention</i> ↗ · 2023 · McCarley, Jason S. et al. · indexed
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Depression and Memory: Are Impairments Remediable Through Attentional Control? ↗ · 1994 · Hertel, Paula T. · indexed
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A computational theory of executive cognitive processes and multiple-task performance: Part 2. Accounts of psychological refractory-period phenomena. ↗ · 1997 · Meyer, David E. et al. · indexed
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The Resource King is dead! Long live the Resource King! · 1999 · Towse, John N. et al. · archived
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Processing stages in overlapping tasks: Evidence for a central bottleneck. · 1984 · Pashler, Harold · archived
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Dual-task interference with equal task emphasis: Graded capacity sharing or central postponement? · 2003 · Ruthruff, Eric et al. · archived
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An Embedded-Processes Model of Working Memory · 1999 · Cowan, Nelson · archived
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Measuring the Workload of Sustained Attention: Further Evaluation of the Multiple Reources Questionnaire ↗ · 2008 · Boles, David B. et al. · indexed
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Attention control, memory updating, and emotion regulation temporarily reduce the capacity for executive control. ↗ · 2007 · Schmeichel, Brandon J. · indexed
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Attentional resources in timing: Interference effects in concurrent temporal and nontemporal working memory tasks · 1997 · Brown, Scott W. · archived
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Cognitive control and meta-control in dual-task coordination · 2023 · Strobach, Tilo · archived
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The Limits of Multiple Resource Theory in Display Formatting: Effects of Task Integration ↗ · 1984 · Boles, David B. et al. · indexed
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An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance ↗ · 2013 · Kurzban, Robert et al. · indexed
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Preface to the special section on measuring cognitive workload in human factors ↗ · 2021 · Biondi, FN et al. · indexed
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Cue‐Based Processing Capacity, Cognitive Load and the Completion of Simulated Short‐Duration Vigilance Tasks in Power Transmission Control ↗ · 2014 · Small, Aaron J. et al. · indexed
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Cholinergic blockade and human information processing: are we asking the right questions? ↗ · 1994 · Rusted, Jennifer · indexed
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A Bottleneck Model of Set-Specific Capture · 2014 · Moore, Katherine Sledge et al. · archived