Registered Reports with In-Principle Acceptance
Hall, B.F., Wagge, J.R., Pfuhl, G., Stieger, S., Vergauwe, E., …, Hautekiet, C., ..., & Grahe, J.E. (In-principle acceptance). Registered Replication Report: Turri, Buckwalter, & Blouw (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences.
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2024
Valentini, B., & Vergauwe, E. (2024). Do school-aged children spontaneously use refreshing as maintenance strategy in working memory? Testing the effects of free time and motivation.. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001771
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Schneider, P., Vergauwe, E., & Camos, V. (in press). The visual familiarity effect on attentional working memory maintenance. Memory and Cognition.
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Turoman, N., Fiave, P.A., Zahnd, C., deBettencourt, M., & Vergauwe, E. (2024). Decoding the content of working memory in school-aged children. Cortex, 171, 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.019
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2023
Vergauwe, E. (2023). Coping with common PhD challenges by making the implicit explicit. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00267-9
Turoman, N., & Vergauwe, E. (In Press). The effect of Multisensory distraction on working memory: A role for task relevance? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001323
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Turoman, N., Heyard, R., Schwab, S., Furrer, E., Vergauwe, E., & Held, L. (2023) Using an expert survey and user feedback to construct PRECHECK: A checklist to evaluate preprints on COVID-19 and beyond [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. F1000Research, 12:588. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.129814.1
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Ricker, T. J., Souza, A. S., & Vergauwe, E. (2023). Feature identity determines representation structure in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152(10), 2925-2940. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001427
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Jeanneret, S., Bartsch, L., & Vergauwe, E. (2023). To be or not to be relevant: Comparing short- and long-term consequences across working memory prioritization procedures. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1486–1498 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02706-4
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Hautekiet, C., Verschooren, S., Langerock, N., & Vergauwe, E. (2023). Attentional switching between perception and memory: Examining asymmetrical switch costs. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1398-1408. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02665-w
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Preregistration: and
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Open access:
Schneider, P., Vergauwe, E., & Camos, V. (2023). Is the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory Due to Attentional Refreshing?. Journal of Cognition, 6(1), 16. DOI:
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Uittenhove, K., Jeanneret, S., & Vergauwe, E. (2023). From Lab-Testing to Web-Testing in Cognitive Research: Who You Test is More Important than how You Test. Journal of Cognition, 6(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.259
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Vergauwe, E. & Langerock, N. (2023). A (further) test of spontaneous serial refreshing in verbal and spatial working memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 1600-1611. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02624-x
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2022
Valentini, B., & Vergauwe, E. (2022). Stuck on the Last: The Last-Presented Benefit as an Index of Attentional Refreshing in Adolescents. Journal of Intelligence, 11(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11010004
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Ricker, T.J., & Vergauwe, E. (2022). Boundary Conditions for Observing Cognitive Load Effects in Visual Working Memory. Memory and Cognition. 50(6), 1169-1185. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01320-3
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AuBuchon, A.M., Elliott, E.M., Morey, C.C., …, Jeanneret, S., …, Valentini, B., Vergauwe, E., Vlach. H., & Voracek, M. (2022). Lexical access speed and the development of phonological recoding during immediate serial recall. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(5), 624‑643. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2022.2083140
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Turoman, N., Hautekiet, C., Jeanneret, S., Valentini, B., & Langerock, N. (2022). Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2333
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Delooze, M., Langerock, N., Macy. R., Vergauwe, E., & Morey, C.C. (2022). Encode a letter and get its location for free? Assessing incidental binding of verbal and spatial features. Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060685
Open data and Open materials:
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Valentini, B., Uittenhove, K., & Vergauwe, E. (2022). The time-course of the last-presented benefit in working memory: Shifts in the content of the focus of attention. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 8, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.199
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2021
Langerock, N., Sposito, G., Hautekiet, C., & Vergauwe, E. (2021). Inhibition-of-return-like effects in working memory? A preregistered replication study of Johnson et al. (2013). Royal Society Open Science, 8, 210254. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210254
Open data and Open materials:
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Elliott, E.M., Morey, C.C., AuBuchon, A.M., …, Jeanneret, S., …, Valentini, B., Vergauwe, E., Vlach. H., & Voracek, M. (2021). Multi-lab direct replication of Flavell, Beach and Chinsky (1966): Spontaneous verbal rehearsal in a memory task as a function of age. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences, 4(2), 25152459211018187. https://doi.org/10.1177/251524592110181
Open data and Open materials:
Preregistration:
Preprint:
Vergauwe, E., von Bastian, C.C., Kostova, R. & Morey, C.C. (2021). Storage and processing in working memory: A single, domain-general resource explains multi-tasking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000895
Open data and Open materials:
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Preprint:
Vergauwe, E., *Besch, V., *Latrèche, C., & Langerock, N. (2021). The use of attention to maintain information in working memory: A developmental investigation of spontaneous refreshing in school-aged children. Developmental Science, e13104. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13104
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Jones, B., DeBruine, L., Flake, J., …, Uittenhove, K., …, Vergauwe, E., …, & Chartier, C. (2021). Social perception of faces around the world: How well does the valence-dominance model generalize across world regions? Nature Human Behavior, 5, 159–169.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2
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2020
Ricker, T.J., & Vergauwe, E. (2020). Consistent Failure to Produce a Cognitive Load Effect in Visual Working Memory using a Standard Dual-Task Procedure. Journal of Cognition, 3 (1), 15. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.108
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Ricker, T.J., Sandry, J., Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2020). Do familiar memory items decay? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000719
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2019
Uittenhove, K., & Vergauwe, E. (2019). The relation between memory speed and capacity: A domain-general law of human cognition? Journal of Cognition, 2 (1), 41. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.83
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Camos, V., Mora, G., Oftinger, A.-L., Mariz Elsig, S., Schneider, P., & Vergauwe, E. (2019). Does semantic long-term memory impact refreshing in verbal working memory? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1664-1682. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000657
Open access: available soon on
Vergauwe, E., Ricker, T.J., Langerock, N., & Cowan, N. (2019). What do people typically do between list items? The nature of attention-based mnemonic activities depends on task context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 779-794. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000625
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2018
Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C., Ijzerman, H., Urry, H., … , Vergauwe, E., …, & Chartier, C. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaborative network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences, 1, 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459187976
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Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G.D.A., Conway, A.R.A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G., Hurlstone, M., Ma, W.-J., Morey, C.C., Nee, D.E., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks provide common ground for model development: Response to Logie (2018) and Vandierendonck (2018). Psychological Bulletin, 144, 972-977. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-153611
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Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G.D.A., Conway, A.R.A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G., Hurlstone, M., Ma, W.-J., Morey, C.C., Nee, D.E., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory. Psychological Bulletin, 144, 885-958. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000153
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Souza, A., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). Unravelling the intersections between consolidation, refreshing, and removal – Introduction to the special issue on attention in working memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 5-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13943
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Langerock, N., Wisniewski, D., Brass, M., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). An examination of refreshing in between-category sequences. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13702
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Vergauwe, E. (2018). Comparing working memory performance under different instructed-refreshing schemes: Evidence for cumulative, forward-order refreshing? Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 102-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13630
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Souza, A., Vergauwe, E., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Where to attend next? Guiding refreshing of visual, spatial and verbal representations in working memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 76-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13621
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Camos, V., Johnson, M., Loaiza, V., Portrat, S., Souza, A., & Vergauwe, E. (2018). What is attentional refreshing in working memory? Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1424, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13616
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Langerock, N., Vergauwe, E., Dirix, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2018). Is memory better for objects than for separate single features? The temporal hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 898-917. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000501
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Vergauwe, E., Langerock, N., & Cowan, N. (2018). Evidence for spontaneous serial refreshing in verbal working memory? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25, 674-680. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1387-4
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2017
Vergauwe, E., & Langerock, N. (2017). Attentional refreshing of information in working memory: Increased accessibility of just-refreshed representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 23-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2017.05.001
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Hardman, K., Vergauwe, E., & Ricker, T. (2017). Categorical working memory representations are used in delayed estimation of continuous colors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 30-54. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000290
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Dagry, I., Vergauwe, E., & Barrouillet, P. (2017). Cleaning working memory: The fate of distractors. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2016.08.002
2016
Vergauwe, E., Hardman, K., Rouder, J., Roemer, E., McAllaster, S., & Cowan, N. (2016). Searching for serial refreshing in working memory: Using response times to track the content of the focus of attention over time. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23, 1818-1824. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1038-1
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Ricker, T., Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2016). Decay theory of immediate memory: From Brown (1958) to Today (2014). The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1969-1995. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.914546
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2015
Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2015). Working memory units are all in your head: Factors that influence whether features or objects are the favored units. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1404-1416. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000108
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Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2015). Attending to items in working memory: Evidence that refreshing and memory search are closely related. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 1001-1006. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0755-6
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Ricker, T., Vergauwe, E., Hinrichs, G., Blume, C., & Cowan, N. (2015). No recovery of memory when cognitive load is decreased. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 872-880. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000084
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Vergauwe, E., Hartstra, E., Barrouillet, P., & Brass, M. (2015). Domain-general involvement of the posterior frontolateral cortex in Time-Based Resource-Sharing in working memory: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 115, 104-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.059
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Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2015). Theories of short-term memory. International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Science (second edition). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Cowan, N., & Vergauwe, E. (2015). Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may develop. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1538. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01538
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2014
Vergauwe, E., Camos, V., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). The effect of storage on processing: How is information maintained in working memory? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 1072-1095. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035779
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Vergauwe, E., Langerock, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). Maintaining information in visual working memory: Memory for bindings and Memory for features are equally disrupted by increased attentional demands. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 158-162. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000025
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Langerock, N., Vergauwe, E., & Barrouillet, P. (2014). The maintenance of cross-domain associations in the episodic buffer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 1098-1109. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035783
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Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2014). Assessing and revising the plan for intelligence testing. Journal of Intelligence, 2, 29-32. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence2020029
Open access:
Vergauwe, E., & Cowan, N. (2014). A common Short-Term Memory retrieval rate may describe many cognitive procedures. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:126. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00126
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Before 2014
Vergauwe, E., Gauffroy, C., Morsanyi, K., Dagry, I., & Barrouillet, P. (2013). Chronometric evidence for the dual-process mental model theory of conditional. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 174-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2012.744743
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Vergauwe, E., Dewaele, N., Langerock, N., & Barrouillet, P. (2012). Evidence for a central pool of general resources in working memory. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 359-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.640625
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Barrouillet, P., Portrat, S., Vergauwe, E., Diependaele, K., & Camos, V. (2011). Further evidence for temporal decay in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1302-1317. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022933
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Vergauwe, E., Barrouillet, P., & Camos, V. (2010). Do mental processes share a domain-general resource? Psychological Science, 21, 384-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610361340
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Vergauwe, E., Barrouillet, P., & Camos, V. (2009). Visual and spatial working memory are not that dissociated after all: A Time-Based Resource-Sharing account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1012-1028. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015859
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Barrouillet, P., Gavens, N., Vergauwe, E., Gaillard, V., & Camos, V. (2009). Working memory span development: A Time-Based Resource-Sharing Model account. Developmental Psychology, 45, 477-490. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014615
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Barrouillet, P., Bernardin, S., Portrat, S., Vergauwe, E., & Camos, V. (2007). Time and cognitive load in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.33.3.570
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Imbo, I., Vandierendonck, A., & Vergauwe, E. (2007). The role of working memory in carrying and borrowing. Psychological Research, 71, 467-483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-006-0044-8
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