The relation between attention and memory

Cowan, Nelson, Bao, Chenye, Bishop-Chrzanowski, Brittney M., Costa, Amy N., Greene, Nathaniel R., Guitard, Dominic, Li, Chenyuan, Musich, Madison L. and Unal, Zehra E. 2024. The relation between attention and memory. Annual Review of Psychology 75 , pp. 183-214. 10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736

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Abstract

The relation between attention and memory has long been deemed important for understanding cognition, and it was heavily researched even in the first experimental psychology laboratory by Wilhelm Wundt and his colleagues. Since then, the importance of the relation between attention and memory has been explored in myriad subdisciplines of psychology, and we incorporate a wide range of these diverse fields. Here, we examine some of the practical consequences of this relation and summarize work with various methodologies relating attention to memory in the fields of working memory, long-term memory, individual differences, life-span development, typical brain function, and neuropsychological conditions. We point out strengths and unanswered questions for our own embedded processes view of information processing, which is used to organize a large body of evidence. Last, we briefly consider the relation of the evidence to a range of other theoretical views before drawing conclusions about the state of the field.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Annual Reviews
ISSN:	0066-4308
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 June 2023
Date of Acceptance:	5 April 2023
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2024 15:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159310

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