www.thelancet.com Published online Ocotober 13, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31850-5 1 Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia (WMC); Centre for Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders, Western Australian Neuromuscular Research Insitiute, University of Western Australia, WA, Australia (WMC); National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auck...

The wireless motility/pH capsule (WMC) is an orally ingested, nondigestible, data recording device that enables the simultaneous assessment of regional and whole gut transit. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the evaluation of patients with suspected delayed gastric emptying and the evaluation of colonic transit time in patients with chronic idiopathic constipation, this capsu...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between working memory capacity (WMC) and frontal theta response to memory load in Sternberg task. We show that oscillatory activity in the theta band (4-6 Hz) related to Sternberg task performance may differentiate people characterized by high and low WMC. Specifically, there is a linear increase of frontal midline (FM) theta power with...

Individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) increase the ability and tendency to devote greater attentional control to a task—improving performance on a wide range of skills. In addition, recent research on enclothed cognition demonstrates that the situational influence of wearing a white lab coat increases controlled attention, due to the symbolic meaning and physical experience of...

Individuals scoring relatively high on measures of working memory tend to be more proficient at controlling attention to minimize the effect of distracting information. It is currently unknown whether such superior attention control abilities are mediated by stronger suppression of irrelevant information, enhancement of relevant information, or both. Here we used steady-state visual evoked pote...

The links between control over recollection and working memory capacity (WMC) were investigated using event-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioural assays. Electrophysiological evidence for a relationship between greater control over recollection and higher scores on a measure of WMC was obtained. In addition, people with high WMC who first completed a task requiring cognitive control showed ...

A combined experimental, individual-differences, and thought-sampling study tested the predictions of executive attention (e.g., Engle & Kane, 2004) and coordinative binding (e.g., Oberauer, Süβ, Wilhelm, & Sander, 2007) theories of working memory capacity (WMC). We assessed 288 subjects' WMC and their performance and mind-wandering rates during a sustained-attention task; subjects completed ei...

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Working memory updating (WMU)—the ability to maintain accurate representations of information changing over time— has been successfully used in individual differences research to predict higher cognitive abilities. For instance, WMU has been found to predict fluid intelligence and reading comprehension. However, little is known about the underlying component processes of WMU or the relationship...