Implicit working memory

TL;DR: This paper reviews the controversy, arguing that proponents of sparse perception are committed to a peculiar kind of generic conscious representation that has no independent rationale and an unmotivated form of unconscious representation that in some cases conflicts with what the authors know about unconscious representation.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that working memory capacity (WMC) benefits creativity because it enables the individual to maintain attention focused on the task and prevents undesirable mind wandering.

TL;DR: Results suggest that some of the NCCs identified in previous studies may be more closely linked with accessing and maintaining perceptual information for reporting purposes than with encoding the conscious percept itself.

TL;DR: Evidence is reviewed from various subfields of the cognitive sciences, which shows that functions that were traditionally thought of as requiring consciousness can occur nonconsciously, and the author presents considerations of evolutionary pressures and of the availability of mental resources that render YIC a reasonable hypothesis.

TL;DR: This chapter demonstrates the functional importance of dopamine to working memory function in several ways and demonstrates that a network of brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, is critical for the active maintenance of internal representations.

TL;DR: The revised model differs from the old principally in focussing attention on the processes of integrating information, rather than on the isolation of the subsystems, which provides a better basis for tackling the more complex aspects of executive control in working memory.

TL;DR: A wide variety of data on capacity limits suggesting that the smaller capacity limit in short-term memory tasks is real is brought together and a capacity limit for the focus of attention is proposed.