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    Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence
    with Andrew R. A. Conway and Randall W. Engle
    Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (12): 547-552. 2003.
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    A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity
    with M. Kathryn Bleckley, Andrew R. A. Conway, and Randall W. Engle
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130 (2): 169. 2001.
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    Working memory, executive function, and general fluid intelligence are not the same
    with Richard P. Heitz, Thomas S. Redick, David Z. Hambrick, Andrew R. A. Conway, and Randall W. Engle
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2): 135-136. 2006.
    Blair equates the constructs of working memory (WM), executive function, and general fluid intelligence (gF). We argue that there is good reason not to equate these constructs. We view WM and gF as separable but highly related, and suggest that the mechanism behind the relationship is controlled attention – an ability that is dependent on normal functioning of the prefrontal cortex. (Published Online April 5 2006).
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    No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training: A randomized, placebo-controlled study
    with Thomas S. Redick, Zach Shipstead, Tyler L. Harrison, Kenny L. Hicks, David E. Fried, David Z. Hambrick, and Randall W. Engle
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 142 (2): 359. 2013.
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    What do working-memory tests really measure?
    with Andrew R. A. Conway and Randall W. Engle
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1): 101-102. 1999.
    Individuals may differ in the general-attention executive component or in the subordinate domain-specific “slave” components of working memory. Tasks requiring sustained memory representations across attention shifts are reliable, valid indices of executive abilities. Measures emphasizing specific processing skills may increase reliability within restricted samples but will not reflect the attention component responsible for the broad predictive validity of span tasks.
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    As the author repeats, this book is not a history of the concept of analysis but rather an interpretation of the transformation of analysis in the classical sense into analytic in the critical sense. Moreover, the work concentrates not on the concept of analysis itself but rather on the discourse about analysis prevailing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With this focus, the author devotes the greater part of this book to his discussion of what a dozen or so thinkers spanning this pe…Read more
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    Variation in Working Memory (edited book)
    with Andrew R. A. Conway, Akira Miyake, and John N. Towse
    Oxford University Press USA. 2006.
    Working memory--the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting--varies considerably from person to person and changes dramatically during each person's life. Understanding such individual and developmental differences is crucial because working memory is a major contributor to general intellectual functioning. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, integrative, and comprehensive approach to understanding variation in working memory by presenting expli…Read more
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    Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections and Replies (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 50 (2): 386-386. 1996.
    This excellent volume consists of thirteen essays on the objections Descartes received in response to his Meditations, bracketed by a prologue by both editors and an epilogue by Marjorie Grene. The goal of this book is to further an understanding of these objections by discussing them in their historical and philosophical context, and in this it largely succeeds.