Wewould like to begin by offering a new theoretical account of the duration-based part of the word length effect, inspired partly by the recent literature and partly by Service’s comments (this issue). Baddeley (1986) suggested that recall depends on the speed of a covert verbal rehearsal process. Cowan and colleagues have argued that it may, but that recall also depends on the speed of some so...

In 1940 Dr. Arthur Jackson of the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine brought to our attention the existence of a group of medical books in a barn in Litchfield, Connecticut. They belonged to a Litchfield resident named Mr. Joseph Cowan. Upon enquiry it was discovered that Mr. Cowan was the adopted son of Dr. J. Knight Bacon, whose mother was a daughter of Jonathan Knight, who at the age of ...

• We study an extension of the Wilson-Cowan, for general delay distributions. analyze bifurcations in terms connectivity and average time delay. illustrate dynamics differences between different suggest that distributions may underlie functional behaviors. application to Beta oscillations a basal ganglia circuit. The traditional Wilson-Cowan model excitatory inhibitory meanfield interactions ne...