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Career

· Associate Professor, Nelson Mandela University2021–
· Senior Lecturer And Researcher, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University2012–2021
· Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Botany, University of Cape Town2007–2012

Publications (379)

The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2001
6,318
cited
Evolving conceptions of memory storage, selective attention, and their mutual constraints within the human information-processing system.
Psychological bulletin · 1988
1,714
cited
Working Memory Capacity
2005
1,522
cited
An embedded-processes model of working memory
1999
1,409
cited
What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?
Progress in Brain Research · 2008
1,242
cited
On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes
Cognitive Psychology · 2005
1,143
cited
A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence
2002
1,131
cited
The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The importance of working memory capacity
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2001
902
cited
On short and long auditory stores.
Psychological bulletin · 1984
637
cited
The many faces of working memory and short-term storage
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2016
438
cited
The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: how frequent are attention shifts to one's name in an irrelevant auditory channel?
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition · 1995
374
cited
The development of memory in childhood
1997
366
cited
An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2008
353
cited
Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: a new hypothesis
Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2007
327
cited
How to measure working memory capacity in the change detection paradigm
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2011
317
cited
The role of verbal output time in the effects of word length on immediate memory.
1992
283
cited
Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.
Psychological bulletin · 2018
275
cited
Activation, attention, and short-term memory
Memory & Cognition · 1993
263
cited
Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults
Memory & Cognition · 2006
251
cited
A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory.
Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2007
237
cited
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