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Direct linkDeCaro, Marci S.; Van Stockum, Charles A., Jr.; Wieth, Mareike B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Higher working memory capacity (WMC) improves performance on a range of cognitive and academic tasks. However, a greater ability to control attention sometimes leads individuals with higher WMC to persist in using complex, attention-demanding approaches that are suboptimal for a given task. We examined whether higher WMC would hinder insight…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Attention Control, Intuition
