Editorial: Turning the Mind's Eye Inward: The Interplay Between Selective Attention and Working Memory

• Published in: Frontiers in human neuroscience Vol. 9; p. 616
• Main Authors: Abrahamse, Elger, Majerus, Steve, Fias, Wim, van Dijck, Jean-Philippe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 10.11.2015; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Cognitive ability; Conflicts of interest; Long term memory; Memory; Nervous system; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Psychology of learning; Short term memory; Belgium; short-term memory; working memory; long-term memory; selective attention; executive function
• ISSN: 1662-5161; 1662-5161
• DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00616

The current Research Topic in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience aims to contribute to this challenge and offers novel empirical observations, state-of-the-art reviews, and intriguing theoretical proposals that illuminate the interplay between selective attention and working memory. [...]the study of the interplay between selective attention and working memory is not only fruitful for increasing our understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of working memory, it also helps us to achieve a better understanding of specific cognitive and behavioral difficulties across various types of populations. [...]the current Research Topic also contains studies that extrapolate insights from the interplay between selective attention and working memory to other domains. (2014) use eye-tracking methodology to investigate to what degree individual differences in working memory capacity are predictive of word relocation processes during reading.