*Saults, J.S., & Cowan, N. (in press). A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 
Cowan, N., & Chen, Z. (in press). How chunks form in long-term memory and affect short-term memory limits. In A. Thorn & M. Page (eds). Interactions between short-term and long-term memory in the verbal domain. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
Cowan, N. (invited chapter under review). What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory? In W. Sossin, J.-C. Lacaille, V.F. Castellucci & S. Belleville (eds.), The essence of memory. Amsterdam: Elsevier / Academic Press.
*Halford, G.S., Cowan, N., & Andrews, G. (2007). Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: A new hypothesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 236-242.
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., Saults, J.S., Chen, Z., & Gilchrist, A.L. (invited chapter in preparation). Theory and measurement of working memory capacity limits. In Ross, B.H. (ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 49.
Cowan, N. (in press). Working memory. In N.J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology. London: Sage.
*Cowan, N., & Morey, C.C. (in press). How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated? Psychological Science.
Cowan, N. (in press). Sensory Memory. In H.L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive psychology of memory. Vol. 2 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 4 vols. (J.Byrne, Editor). Oxford: Elsevier.
Courage, M.L., & Cowan, N. (accepted for publication). What’s new in research on the development of children’s memory?. In M. Courage & N. Cowan (eds.), The development of memory in childhood, 2nd edition. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
Cowan, N. (2007). What can infants tell us about working memory development? In L.M. Oakes & P.J. Bauer (eds.), Short- and long- term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. New York: Oxford University Press. (Pp. 126-150)
Cowan, N., & Alloway, T. (accepted for publication). The development of working memory. In M. Courage & N. Cowan (eds.), The development of memory in childhood, 2nd edition. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
*Bunting, M.F., Cowan, N., & Saults, J.S. (2006). How does running memory span work? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1691-1700.
Dewar, M.T., Cowan, N., & Della Sala, S. (in press). Forgetting due to retroactive interference: A fusion of Müller and Pilzecker’s (1900) early insights into everyday forgetting and recent research on anterograde amnesia. Cortex.
*Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., & Morey, C.C. (2006). Development of working memory for verbal-spatial associations. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 274-289.
*Naveh-Benjamin, M., Cowan, N., Kilb, A., & Chen, Z. (in press). Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: Dissociating chunk formation and capacity. Memory & Cognition.
Cowan, N., & Morey, C.C. (2006). Visual working memory depends on attentional filtering. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 139-141.
*Cowan, N., Fristoe, N.M., Elliott, E.M., Brunner, R.P., & Saults, J.S. (2006). Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1754-1768.
Cowan, N., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Ispa-Cowan, A.J. (2006). Stupid brain! Homer’s working memory odyssey. In A. Brown, The psychology of the Simpsons: D'Oh! Dallas: BenBella Books. (pp. 49-64)
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., Chen, Z., & Bunting, M.F. (accepted for publication). What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us? In N. Osaka, R. Logie, & M. D’Esposito (eds.), Working memory: Behavioural and neural correlates. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
*Cowan, N., Naveh-Benjamin, M., Kilb, A., & Saults, J.S. (2006). Life-Span development of visual working memory: When is feature binding difficult? Developmental Psychology, 42, 1089-1102.
*Cowan, N., Elliott, E.M., Saults, J.S., Nugent, L.D., Bomb, P., & Hismjatullina, A. (2006). Rethinking speed theories of cognitive development: Increasing the rate of recall without affecting accuracy. Psychological Science, 17, 67-73.
*Chen, Z., & Cowan, N. (2005). Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: A reconciliation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 1235-1249.
*Cowan, N., Elliott, E.M., Saults, J.S., Morey, C.C., Mattox, S., Hismjatullina, A., & Conway, A.R.A. (2005). On the capacity of attention: Its estimation and its role in working memory and cognitive aptitudes. Cognitive Psychology, 51, 42-100.
Cowan, N. (2006). Within fluid cognition: Fluid processing and fluid storage? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 129-130. Commentary on C. Blair target article.
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., & Chen, Z. (2007). The legend of the magical number seven. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), Tall tales about the mind & brain: Separating fact from fiction. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Elliott, E.M., Barrilleaux, K.M., & Cowan, N. (2006). Individual differences in the ability to avoid distracting sounds. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 90-108. a
Cowan, N., Johnson, T.D., & Saults, J.S. (2005). Capacity limits in list item recognition: Evidence from proactive interference. Memory, 13, 293-299.
Yiend, J., Mathews, A., & Cowan, N. (2005). Selective attention tasks in clinical and cognitive research. In A. Wenzel and D.C. Rubin (eds.), Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research. Washington, D.C.: APA Books. (pp. 65 – 71).
Cowan, N. (2005). Selective attention tasks in cognitive research. In A. Wenzel and D.C. Rubin (eds.), Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research. Washington, D.C.: APA Books. (pp. 73 – 96)
*Morey, C.C., & Cowan, N. (2005). When do visual and verbal memories conflict? The importance of working-memory load and retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 703-713.
Bunting, M.F., & Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory and flexibility in awareness and attention. Psychological Research, 69, 412-419.
*Elliott, E.M., & Cowan, N. (2005). Coherence of the irrelevant-sound effect: Individual profiles of short-term memory and susceptibility to task-irrelevant materials. Memory & Cognition, 33, 664-675.
Jarrold, C., Cowan, N., Hewes, A.K., & Riby, D.M. (2004). Speech timing and verbal short-term memory: Evidence for contrasting deficits in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 365-380.
Cowan, N. (2005). Understanding intelligence: A summary and an adjustable-attention hypothesis. In O. Wilhelm & R.W. Engle (Eds.), Handbook of understanding and measuring intelligence. London: Sage. (pp. 469-488)
*Cowan, N., Beschin, N., & Della Sala, S. (2004). Verbal recall in amnesiacs under conditions of diminished retroactive interference. Brain, 127, 825-834.
*Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., & Brown, G.D.A. (2004). On the auditory modality superiority effect in serial recall: Separating input and output factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 639-644.
Winkler, I., & Cowan, N. (2005). From sensory to long term memory: Evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies. Experimental Psychology, 52, 3-20.
Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., Cowan, N., & Pfaltz, M. (2004). Learning in a unidimensional absolute identification task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 938-944.
*Cowan, N., Chen, Z., & Rouder, J.N. (2004). Constant capacity in an immediate serial-recall task: A logical sequel to Miller (1956). Psychological Science, 15, 634-640.
Towse, J., & Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory and its relevance for cognitive development. In W. Schneider, R. Schumann-Hengsteler, & B. Sodian (eds.), Young children’s cognitive development: Interrelationships among executive functioning, working memory, verbal ability, and theory of mind. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pp. 9-37)
Cowan, N. (2005). Working-memory capacity limits in a theoretical context. In C. Izawa & N. Ohta (eds.), Human learning and memory: Advances In theory and applications. The 4th Tsukuba international conference on memory. Erlbaum. (pp. 155-175)
*Morey, C.C., & Cowan, N. (2004). When visual and verbal memories compete: Evidence of cross-domain limits in working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 296-301.
Cowan, N. (2004). On the psychophysics of memory. In C. Kaernbach, E. Schröger, & H. Müller (eds.), Psychophysics beyond sensation: Laws and invariants of human cognition. Scientific Psychology Series. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pp. 313-317)
Della Sala, S., Cowan, N., Beschin, N., & Perini, M. (2005). Just lying there, remembering: Improving recall of prose in amnesic patients with mild cognitive impairment by minimizing interference. Memory, 13, 435-440.
Cowan, N. (2003). Varieties of procedural accounts of working memory retention systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 731-732. (Commentary on target article by Ruchkin et al.)
*Cowan, N., Towse, J.N., Hamilton, Z., Saults, J.S., Elliott, E.M., Lacey, J.F., Moreno, M.V., & Hitch, G.J. (2003). Children's working-memory processes: A response-timing analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 113-132.
Cowan, N. (2003). Comparisons of developmental modeling frameworks and levels of analysis in cognition: Connectionist and dynamic systems theories deserve attention, but don't yet explain attention. In J.P. Spencer & E. Thelen (Eds.) (2002). Connectionism and dynamic systems approaches to development. [Special issue] Developmental Science, 6, 440-447.
Cowan, N. (2003). Preserving the spirit and respect of academia through traditions. APS Observer, 16, 10. (American Psychological Society)
Gardiner, J.M., & Cowan, N. (2003). Modality effects. In J.H. Byrne, H. Eichenbaum, H.Roediger III, & R.F. Thompson (eds.), Learning and Memory. (2nd edition). New York, NY: Macmillan. (pp. 397-400)
Cowan, N., Baddeley, A.D., Elliott, E.M., & Norris,
J. (2003). List composition and the word length
effect in immediate recall: A comparison of localist and globalist assumptions.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10,
74-79.
Crowder, R.G., & Cowan, N. (2003). Sensory
memory. Revision by N. Cowan of first-edition entry by Robert
G. Crowder. In J.H. Byrne, H. Eichenbaum, H.Roediger III, & R.F.
Thompson (eds.), Learning and Memory.
(2nd edition). Macmillan. (pp. 607-609)
Cowan, N. (2002). Childhood
development of working memory: An examination of two basic parameters.
In P. Graf and N. Ohta, Lifespan development
of human memory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pp. 39 - 57)
Winkler, I., Korzyukov, O., Gumenyuk, V., Cowan, N.,
Linkenkaer-Hansen, K., Ilmoniemi, R.J., Alho, K., & Näätänen,
R. (2002). Temporary and longer term retention
of acoustic information. Psychophysiology,
39, 530-534.
Cowan, N. (2002). Experimental
psychology and its implications for human development. Encyclopedia
of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Oxford, U.K.
Conway, A.R.A., Cowan, N., Bunting, M.F., Therriault, D.J., & Minkoff,
S.R.B. (2002). A latent variable analysis of
working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed,
and general fluid intelligence. Intelligence,
30, 163-183.
Cowan, N., Elliott, E.M., & Saults, J.S.. (2002). The search for what is fundamental in the development
of working memory. In R. Kail & H. Reese (Eds.), Advances
in Child Development and Behavior, 29, 1-49.
Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., Elliott, E.M., & Moreno,
M. (2002). Deconfounding serial recall.
Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 153-177.
Cowan, N. (2000/01). Processing limits of selective attention and working memory: Potential implications for interpreting. Interpreting, 5, 117-146.
Cowan, N. (2001). The magical
number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 87-185.
Included in the above: Cowan, N. (2001). Metatheory
of storage capacity limits. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 24, 154-176. (Reply to commentaries)
Elliott, E.M., & Cowan, N. (2001). Habituation
to auditory distractors in a cross-modal, color-word interference task.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, & Cognition, 27, 654-667.
Conway, R.A., Cowan, N., & Bunting, M.F. (2001). The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: The
importance of working memory capacity. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 8, 331-335.
Cowan, N., Saults, S., & Nugent, L. (2001). The
ravages of absolute and relative amounts of time on memory. In
H.L. Roediger III, J.S. Nairne, I. Neath, & A. Surprenant (eds.), The nature of remembering: Essays in honor of
Robert G. Crowder. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
(pp. 315 - 330)
Winkler, I., Schröger, E., & Cowan, N. (2001). The role of large-scale memory organization in
the mismatch negativity event-related brain potential. Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 59-71.
Gomes, H., Molholm, S., Ritter, W., Kurtzberg, D.,
Cowan, N., & Vaughan, Jr., H.G. (2000). Mismatch
negativity in children and adults, and effects of an attended task.
Psychophysiology, 37, 807-816.
Cowan, N., Rouder, J.N., & Stadler, M.A. (2000). Conjuring a work from the dream time of cognitive
psychology. American Journal of Psychology,
113, 639-671.
Cowan, N. (2000). Childhood
development of some basic parameters of working memory. In E.
Schröger, A. Mecklinger, & A.D. Friederici (eds.), Working
on working memory. Leipzig Series in Cognitive Sciences 1. Leipzig:
Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
Cowan, N., Nugent, L.D., Elliott, E.M., & Saults,
J.S. (2000). Persistence of memory for ignored
lists of digits: Areas of developmental constancy and change.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
76, 151-172.
Gomes, H., Molholm, Christodoulou, C., Ritter, W. & Cowan, N. (2000). The development of auditory
attention in children. Frontiers in Bioscience,
5, d108-120.
Cowan, N., Nugent, L.D., Elliott, E.M., and Geer,
T. (2000). Is there a temporal basis of the word
length effect? A response to Service (1998). Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53A, 647-660.
Cowan, N., Nugent, L.D., & Elliott, E.M.
(2000). Memory-search and rehearsal processes
and the word length effect in immediate recall: A synthesis in reply
to Service. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53A,
666-670.
Brunner, R., & Cowan, N. (2000). The
role of attention in the development of working memory.
McNair Journal,
Fall, 2000.
Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., Nugent, L.D., & Elliott,
E.M. (1999). The microanalysis of memory span
and its development in childhood. International
Journal of Psychology, 34, 353-358. (Special Quebec Memory Conference
issue)
Cowan, N. (1999). An embedded-processes
model of working memory. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (eds.), Models
of Working Memory: Mechanisms of active maintenance and executive control.
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 62-101)
Rinne, T., Gratton, G., Fabiani, M., Cowan, N., Maclin,
E., Stinard, A., Sinkkonen, J., Alho, K., & Näätänen,
R. (1999). Scalp-recorded optical signals make
sound processing in the auditory cortex visible. Neuroimage,
10, 620-624. [ full
text ]
Ritter, W., Sussman, E., Deacon, D., Cowan, N., & Vaughan, H.G. (1999). Two cognitive systems simultaneously
prepared for opposite events. Psychophysiology,
36, 835-838.
Cowan, N. (1999). The differential
maturation of two processing rates related to digit span. Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology, 72, 193-209.
Hulme, C., Newton, P., Cowan, N., Stuart, G., & Brown, G. (1999). Think before you speak: pause,
memory search and trace redintegration processes in verbal memory span.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition, 25, 447-463.
Mueser, P.R., Cowan, N., & Mueser, K.T. (1999). A generalized signal detection model to explain
rational variation in base rate use. Cognition,
69, 267-312.
Cowan, N., Nugent, L.D., Elliott, E.M., Ponomarev,
I., & Saults, J.S. (1999). The role of attention
in the development of short-term memory: Age differences in the verbal
span of apprehension. Child Development,
70, 1082-1097.
March, L., Cienfuegos, A., Goldbloom, L., Ritter,
W., Cowan, N., & Javitt, D.C. (1999). Normal
time course of auditory recognition in schizophrenia, despite impaired
precision of the auditory sensory ("echoic") memory code.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 69-75.
Gomes, H., Sussman, E., Ritter, W., Kurtzberg, D.,
Cowan, N., & Vaughan Jr., H.G. (1999). Electrophysiological
evidence of developmental changes in the duration of auditory sensory
memory. Developmental Psychology,
35, 294-302.
Cowan, N. (1998). Evidence
against the global speed of processing theory of working memory.
In M.A. Gernsbacher & S.J. Derry (Eds.), Proceedings
of the twentieth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (p. 1211).
Cowan, N. (1998). Children's
memories according to fuzzy-trace theory: An endorsement of the theory's
purpose and some suggestions to improve its application. Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology, 71, 144-154.
Cowan, N. (1998). What is more
explanatory, processing capacity or processing speed? Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 21, 835-836. (Commentary on target article
by Graham Halford)
Cowan, N. (1998). Five enigmas
regarding LaBerge's (1997) triangular-circuit theory of attention and
self-referential theory of awareness. Psyche,
4 (08). (Note: This is a web journal.) [ full
text ]
Cowan, N. (1998). Visual and
auditory working memory. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 2, 77-78.
Ritter, W., Gomes, H., Cowan, N., Sussman, E., & Vaughan, H.G., Jr. (1998). Reactivation of a
dormant representation of an auditory stimulus feature. Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 605-614. [ abstract
]
Saults, J.S., & Cowan, N. (1998) . Developmental
and individual differences in short-term memory. In N. Raz (ed.),
The other side of the error term: Aging and development
as model systems in cognitive neuroscience. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
(pp. 155-196).
Gillam, R., Cowan, N., & Marler, J. (1998). Information
processing by school-age children with specific language impairment:
Evidence from a modality effect paradigm. Journal
of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 41, 913-926.
Cowan, N., Wood, N.L., Wood, P.K., Keller, T.A., Nugent,
L.D., & Keller, C.V. (1998) . Two separate
verbal processing rates contributing to short-term memory span.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 141-160.
Elliott, E.M., Cowan, N., & Valle-Inclan, F. (1998). The nature of cross-modal, color-word interference
effects. Perception & Psychophysics,
60, 761-767. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., & Nugent, L.D. (1997). The role of absolute and relative amounts of
time in forgetting within immediate memory: The case of tone pitch comparisons.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4,
393-397.
Cowan, N., & Wood, N.L. (1997). Constraints
on awareness, attention, and memory: Some recent investigations with
ignored speech. Consciousness and Cognition,
6, 182-203.
Wood, N.L., Stadler, M.A., & Cowan, N. (1997). Is there implicit memory without attention? A
re-examination of task demands in Eich's (1984) procedure. Memory & Cognition, 25, 772-779.
Cowan, N., Wood, N.L., Nugent, L.D., & Treisman,
M. (1997). There are two word length effects
in verbal short-term memory: Opposed effects of duration and complexity.
Psychological Science, 8, 290-295.
Javitt, D.C., Strous, R., Grochowski, S., Ritter,
W., & Cowan, N. (1997). Impaired precision,
but normal retention, of auditory sensory ("echoic") memory
information in schizophrenia. Journal
of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 315-324.
Cowan, N. (1997). The development
of working memory. In N. Cowan (ed.), The
development of memory in childhood. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology
Press.
Cowan, N., & Kail, R. (1996). Covert
processes and their development in short-term memory. In S. Gathercole
(ed.), Models of short-term memory. Hove,
U.K: Erlbaum Associates, Ltd. (pp. 29-50)
Cowan, N. (1996). Can we resolve
contradictions between process dissociation models? Consciousness
and Cognition, 5, 255-259.
Cowan, N., & Stadler, M.A. (1996). Estimating
unconscious processes: Implications of a general class of models.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
125, 195-200.
Saults, J.S., & Cowan, N. (1996). The
development of memory for ignored speech. Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology, 63, 239-261. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N. (1996). Short-term
memory, working memory, and their importance in language processing.
Topics in language disorders, 17, 1-18.
[Special issue: K.G. Butler & R.B. Gillam (eds.), "Working
memory and language impairment: New perspectives."] To be reprinted
in 1998 within Memory and language impairment
in children and adults: New perspectives. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen
Publishers.
Multhaup, K.S., Balota, D.A., & Cowan, N. (1996). Implications of aging, lexicality, and item length
for the mechanisms underlying memory span. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 3, 112-120.
Winkler, I., Cowan, N., Csépe, V., Czigler,
I., & Näätänen, R. (1996). Interactions
between transient and long-term auditory memory as reflected by the
mismatch negativity. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 8, 403-415.
Javitt, D.C., Strous, R., Cowan, N., & Ritter,
W. (1995). Behavioral evidence for auditory sensory
("echoic") memory deficit in schizophrenia. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 1517-1519. [ abstract
]
Wood, N., & Cowan, N. (1995). The
cocktail party phenomenon revisited: Attention and memory in the classic
selective listening procedure of Cherry (1953). Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 243-262.
Cowan, N., & Greenspahn, E. (1995). Timed
reactions to an object in apparent motion: Evidence on Cartesian and
non-Cartesian perceptual hypotheses. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 546-554. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N. (1995). Memory theories
from A to Z. Contemporary Psychology,
40, 552-555. (Review of Theories of Memory,
edited by A.F. Collins, S.E. Gathercole, M.A. Conway, & P.E. Morris)
Keller, T.A., Cowan, N., & Saults, J.S. (1995). Can auditory memory for tone pitch be rehearsed?
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, & Cognition, 21, 635-645.
Gillam, R.B., Cowan, N., & Day, L.S. (1995). Sequential
memory in children with and without language impairment. Journal
of Speech & Hearing Research, 38, 393-402. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N. (1995). Verbal working
memory: A view with a room. American Journal
of Psychology, 108, 123-155. (Review of Working
memory and language by S. Gathercole & A. Baddeley)
Wood, N., & Cowan, N. (1995). 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, & Cognition,
21, 255-260.
Cowan, N., & Saults, J.S. (1995). Memory
for speech. In H. Winitz (ed.), Human
communication and its disorders, Vol. 4. Timonium, MD: York Press.
(pp. 81 - 170)
Cowan, N. (1994). Sensory memory
and its role in information processing. In G. Karmos, M. Molnár,
V. Csépe, I. Czigler, & J.E. Desmedt (Eds.), Perspectives
of event-related potential research (Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology Supplement 44). New York: Elsevier
Science Publishers. pp. 21-31.
Cowan, N. (1994). Mechanisms
of verbal short-term memory. Current Directions
in Psychological Science, 3, 185-189.
Keller, T.A., & Cowan, N. (1994). Developmental
increase in the duration of memory for tone pitch. Developmental
Psychology, 30, 855-863.
Cowan, N., Keller, T., Hulme, C., Roodenrys, S., McDougall,
S., & Rack, J. (1994). Verbal memory span
in children: Speech timing clues to the mechanisms underlying age and
word length effects. Journal of Memory
and Language, 33, 234-250.
Cowan, N., Wood, N.L., & Borne, D.N. (1994). Reconfirmation
of the short-term storage concept. Psychological
Science, 5, 103-106.
Braine, M.D.S., Brooks, P.J., Cowan, N., Samuels,
M.C., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. (1993). The Development
of categories at the semantics/syntax interface. Cognitive
Development, 8, 465-494.
Cowan, N., Winkler, I., Teder, W., & Näätänen,
R. (1993). Memory prerequisites of the mismatch
negativity in the auditory event-related potential (ERP). Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition,
19, 909-921.
Massaro, D.W., & Cowan, N. (1993). Information
processing models: Microscopes of the mind. Annual
Review of Psychology, 44, 383-425.
Cowan, N. (1993). Activation,
attention, and short-term memory. Memory & Cognition, 21, 162-167. [* Reprinted in R.J. Sternberg & R.K. Wagner (eds.) (1999), Readings in
Cognitive Psychology. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College
Publishers.]
Cowan, N., & Leavitt, L.A. (1992). Speakers'
access to the phonological structure of the syllable in word games.
In M. Ziolkowski, M. Noske, & K. Deaton (eds.), Papers
from the 26th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume
2: The Parasession On the Syllable in Phonetics and Phonology.
Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Cowan, N. (1992). Verbal memory
span and the timing of spoken recall. Journal
of Memory and Language, 31, 668-684.
Cowan, N., Day, L., Saults, J.S., Keller, T.A., Johnson,
T., & Flores, L. (1992). The role of verbal
output time in the effects of word length on immediate memory.
Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 1-17.
Cowan, N. (1991). Neuropsychology
and mental structure: Where do we go from here? Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 14, 445-446. (Invited commentary on source
article by T. Shallice.)
Cowan, N. (1991). Recurrent
speech patterns as cues to the segmentation of multisyllabic sequences.
Acta Psychologica, 77, 121-135. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., Winterowd, C., & Sherk,
M. (1991). Enhancement of 4-year-old children's
memory span for phonologically similar and dissimilar word lists.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
51, 30-52. [ abstract
]
Balota, D.A., Cowan, N., & Engle, R.W. (1990). Suffix interference in the recall of linguistically
coherent speech. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 16, 446-456.
Cowan, N. (1990). Converging
evidence about information processing. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 13, 237-238. (Invited commentary on a source
article by R. Naatanen)
Cowan, N., Lichty, W., & Grove, T.R. (1990). Properties
of memory for unattended spoken syllables. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition,
16, 258-269.
Cowan, N. (1989). Speech perception
by ear, eye, hand, and mind. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 12, 759-760. (Invited commentary on a source
article by D. W. Massaro)
Cowan, N. (1989). Acquisition
of Pig Latin: A Case Study. Journal of
Child Language, 16, 365-386.
Cowan, N. (1989). The reality
of cross-modal Stroop effects. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 87-88.
Cowan, N. (1989). A reply to
Miles, Madden, and Jones: Mistakes and other flaws in the challenge
to the cross-modal Stroop effect. Perception & Psychophysics, 45, 82-84.
Cowan, N. (1988). Evolving
conceptions of memory storage, selective attention, and their mutual
constraints within the human information processing system. Psychological
Bulletin, 104, 163-191.
Cowan, N., Lichty, W., & Grove, T. (1988). Memory
for unattended speech during silent reading. In M. M. Gruneberg,
P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical
aspects of memory: Current research and issues (Vol. 2). NY:
Wiley & Sons.
Cowan, N., Cartwright, C., Winterowd, C., & Sherk,
M. (1987). An adult model of preschool children's
speech memory. Memory and Cognition,
15, 511-517.
Cowan, N., & Barron, A. (1987). Cross-modal,
auditory-visual Stroop interference and possible implications for speech
memory. Perception & Psychophysics,
41, 393-401.
Cowan, N., & Leavitt, L. A. (1987). The
developmental course of two children who could talk backward five years
ago. Journal of Child Language,
14, 393-395.
Cowan, N. (1987). Auditory
sensory storage in relation to the growth of sensation and acoustic
information extraction. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 204-215. [
abstract
]
Cowan, N. (1987). Auditory
memory: Procedures to examine two phases. In W. A. Yost & C. S. Watson (Eds.), Auditory processing of complex
sounds. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cowan, N. (1986). A matrix
of consonant-cluster-free monosyllabic words in English. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 18, 434-446.
Cowan, N., & Kielbasa, L. (1986). Temporal
properties of memory for speech in preschool children. Memory & Cognition, 14, 382-390.
Cowan, N., & Morse, P. A. (1986). The
use of auditory and phonetic memory in vowel discrimination.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
79, 500-507.
Cowan, N., Braine, M. D. S., & Leavitt, L. A.
(1986). Identifying phonemes and syllables: Evidence
from people who rapidly reorder speech. University
of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 9, 1-39.
Cowan, N., Braine, M. D. S., & Leavitt, L. A.
(1985). The phonological and metaphonological
representation of speech: Evidence from fluent backward talkers.
Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 679-698.
Cowan, N. (1984). On short
and long auditory stores. Psychological
Bulletin, 96, 341-370.
Cowan, N., & Davidson, G. (1984). Salient
childhood memories. Journal of Genetic
Psychology, 145, 101-107.
Goodsitt, J., Morse, P., Ver Hoeve, J., & Cowan,
N. (1984). Infant speech recognition in multisyllabic
contexts. Child Development, 55,
903-910.
Cowan, N., & Leavitt, L. A. (1983). Talking
backward: Speech play in late childhood. In C. L. Thew & E. L. Johnson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second
International Congress for the Study of Child Language (Vol.
2). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Cowan, N., Suomi, K., & Morse, P. A. (1982). Echoic
storage in infant perception. Child Development,
53, 984-990.
Petrovich-Bartell, N., Cowan, N., & Morse, P.
A. (1982). Mothers' perceptions of infant distress
vocalizations. Journal of Speech and Hearing
Research, 25, 371-376. [ abstract
]
Cowan, N., Leavitt, L. A., Massaro, D. W., & Kent,
R. D. (1982). A fluent backward talker.
Journal of Speech and Hearing Research,
25, 48-53.
Cowan, N., & Leavitt, L. A. (1982). Talking
backward: Exceptional speech play in late childhood. Journal
of Child Language, 9, 481-495.
Petrovich-Bartell, N., Cowan, N., & Morse, P.
A. (1982). Perceptual and acoustic attributes
of infant distress vocalizations. In C. L. Thew & E. L. Johnson
(Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International
Congress for the Study of Child Language (Vol. 1). Lanham, MD:
University Press of America.
Morse, P. A., & Cowan, N. (1982). Infant
auditory and speech perception. In T. M. Field, A. Huston, H.
C. Quay, L. Troll, & G. E. Finley (Eds.), Review
of human development. New York: Wiley & Sons.
Cowan, N., & Leavitt, L. A. (1981). Juggling
acts with linguistic units. In M. F. Miller, C. S. Masek, & R. A. Hendrick (Eds.), Proceedings from the parasession
on language and behavior. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Cowan, N., & Morse, P. A. (1979). Influence
of task demands on the categorical versus continuous perception of vowels.
In J. J. Wolf & D. H. Klatt (Eds.), Speech
communication papers presented at the 97th meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America. New York: ASA.
Richardson, J. S., Cowan, N., Hartman, R., & Jacobowitz, D. M. (1974). On the behavioral
and neurochemical actions of 6-hydroxydopa and 5, 6- dihydroxytryptamine
in rats. Research
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