Cowan, N., & Alloway, T. (2009). Development of Working Memory In Childhood. In M.L. Courage & N. Cowan (Eds.), The development of memory in infancy and childhood. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press, 303-342. 
Cowan, N., & Chen, Z. (2009). 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 (pp. 86-101). Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
Cowan, N. (in press). The magical mystery four: How is working memory capacity
limited, and why? Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Chen, Z., & Cowan, N. (in press). How verbal memory loads consume attention.
Memory & Cognition.
Dewar, M., Fernandez Garcia, Y., Cowan, N., & Della Sala, S. (in press). Delaying
interference enhances memory consolidation in amnesic patients. Neuropsychology.
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., AuBuchon, A.M., Zwilling, C.E., & Gilchrist, A.L. (in press). Seven-year-olds allocate attention like adults unless working memory is overloaded. Developmental Science.
Chen, Z., & Cowan, N. (in press). Core verbal working-memory capacity: The limit in words retained without covert articulation. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, iFirst, 1–10.
Cowan, N., & AuBuchon, A.M. (2008). Short-term memory loss over time without retroactive stimulus interference. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(1), 230-235.
Cowan, N. (2008). Sensory Memory. In H. L. Roediger, III (Ed.) & J. Byrne (Vol. Ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory: Vol. 2. Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (pp. 23-32). Oxford: Elsevier.
Cowan, N. (2008). Working Memory. In N.J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 1015-1016). London: Sage Publications.
Cowan, N. (2008, June/July). The rest of the story: The size of thought. Scientific American Mind, 32-35. [Commentary on McCollough & Vogel, "Your inner spam filter: What makes you so smart? Might be your lizard brain."]
Cowan, N. (2008). What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?. In W.S. Sossin, J.-C. Lacaille, V.F. Castellucci & S. Belleville (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Vol. 169. Essence of Memory (pp. 323-338). Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., Chen, Z., Gilchrist, A.L., & Saults, J.S. (2008). Theory and measurement of working memory capacity limits. In B.H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 49, pp. 49-104). Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V.
Gilchrist, A.L., Cowan, N., & Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2008). Working memory capacity for spoken sentences decreases with adult aging: Recall of fewer, but not smaller chunks in older adults. Memory, 16(7), 773-787.
Rouder, J.N., Morey, R.D., Cowan, N., Zwilling, C.E., Morey, C.C., & Pratte, M.S. (2008). An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 105(16), 5975–5979.
Cowan, N. (2008, September). On giving the scientific perspective away. APA Division 3 presidential essay. The Experimental Psychology Bulletin, 12, #2 posted at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div3/Newsletter2008-12-2/Newsletter2008-12-2-a.htm
Cowan, N. (2008, March). Autobiography of the president-elect. The Experimental Psychology Bulletin, 12, #1 posted at
http://www.apa.org/divisions/div3/Newsletter2008-12-1/Newsletter2008-12-1-b.htm
Towse, J.N., Cowan, N., Horton, N.J., & Whytock, S. (2008). Task experience and children's working memory performance: A perspective from recall timing. Developmental Psychology, 44(3), 695-706.
Towse, J.N., Cowan, N., Hitch, G.J., & Horton, N.J. (2008). The recall of information from working memory: Insights from behavioural and chronometric perspectives. Experimental Psychology, 55(6), 371-383.
Bunting, M.F., Cowan, N., & Colflesh, G.H. (2008). The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: Tradeoffs between immediate and delayed deployment. Memory & Cognition, 36(4), 799-812.
Shelton, J.T., Elliott, E.M., Cowan, N. (2008). Attention and working memory: Tools for understanding consciousness. Psyche, 14(1).
Halford, G.S., Cowan, N., & Andrews, G. (2007). Separating cognitive capacity from knowledge: A new hypothesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(6), 236-242.
Saults, J.S., Cowan, N., Sher, K.J., & Moreno, M.V. (2007). Differential effects of alcohol on working memory: Distinguishing multiple processes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15(6), 576–587.
Saults, J.S., & Cowan, N. (2007). A central capacity limit to the simultaneous storage of visual and auditory arrays in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(4), 663-684.
Cowan, N., & Morey, C.C. (2007). How can dual-task working memory retention limits be investigated? Psychological Science, 18(8), 686-688.
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 (pp. 126-150). New York: Oxford University Press.
Dewar, M.T., Cowan, N., & Della Sala, S. (2007). 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, 43(5), 616-634.
Naveh-Benjamin, M., Cowan, N., Kilb, A., & Chen, Z. (2007). Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: Dissociating chunk formation and capacity. Memory & Cognition, 35(4), 724-737.
Cowan, N., Morey, C.C., Chen, Z., & Bunting, M.F. (2007). What do estimates of working memory capacity tell us? In N. Osaka, R. Logie, & M. D’Esposito (Eds.), The cognitive neuroscience of working memory: Behavioral and neural correlates (pp. 43-58). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
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 (pp. 45-59). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Bunting, M.F., Cowan, N., & Saults, J.S. (2006). How does running memory span work? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(10), 1691-1700.
Cowan, N., Saults, J.S., & Morey, C.C. (2006). Development of working memory for verbal-spatial associations. Journal of Memory and Language, 55(2), 274-289.
Cowan, N., & Morey, C.C. (2006). Visual working memory depends on attentional filtering. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(4), 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(8), 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! (pp. 49-64). Dallas: BenBella Books.
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(6), 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(1), 67-73.
Cowan, N. (2006). Within fluid cognition: Fluid processing and fluid storage? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(2), 129-130. Commentary on C. Blair target article.
Elliott, E.M., Barrilleaux, K.M., & Cowan, N. (2006). Individual differences in the ability to avoid distracting sounds. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18(1), 90-108.
Chen, Z., & Cowan, N. (2005). Chunk limits and length limits in immediate recall: A reconciliation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(6), 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., Johnson, T.D., & Saults, J.S. (2005). Capacity limits in list item recognition: Evidence from proactive interference. Memory, 13(3/4), 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 (pp. 65 – 71). Washington, D.C.: APA Books.
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 (pp. 73 – 96). Washington, D.C.: APA Books.
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(4), 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(4), 664-675.
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 (pp. 469-488). London: Sage.
Winkler, I., & Cowan, N. (2005). From sensory to long term memory: Evidence from auditory memory reactivation studies. Experimental Psychology, 52(1), 3-20.
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(3/4), 435-440.
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 (pp. 9-37). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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 (pp. 155-175). The 4th Tsukuba international conference on memory. Erlbaum.
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., 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.
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.
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 (pp. 313-317). Scientific Psychology Series. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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 ed., pp. 397-400) ). New York, NY: Macmillan.
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 ed., pp. 607-609). Macmillan.
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 (pp. 39 - 57). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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 (pp. 315 - 330). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
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, 108-120.
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(3), 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(3),
666-670.
Brunner, R., & Cowan, N. (2000, Fall). The
role of attention in the development of working memory. McNair Journal.
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 (pp. 62-101). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
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 (p. 1211). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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 (pp. 155-196). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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 (pp. 29-50). Hove,
U.K: Erlbaum Associates, Ltd.
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 (pp. 81 - 170). Timonium, MD: York Press.
Cowan, N. (1994). Sensory memory
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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 from Readings in
Cognitive Psychology, by R.J. Sternberg & R.K. Wagner, Eds., 1999, 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: Vol.
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.
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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
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