Prof. Klaus Oberauer

Bartsch, L. M., & Oberauer, K. (2023). The contribution of episodic long-term memory to working memory for bindings. (PDF, 2 MB) Cognition, 231, 105330. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105330

Kowialiewski, B., Krasnoff, J., Mizrak, E., & Oberauer, K. (2023). Verbal working memory encodes phonological and semantic information differently. (PDF, 2 MB) Cognition, 233, 105364. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105364

Oberauer, K. (2022). The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing. (PDF, 2 MB) Psychological Science, 33(4), 648-665. doi:10.1177/09567976211046884

Oberauer, K. (2022). Little support for discrete item limits in visual working memory. (PDF, 514 KB) Psychological Science, 09567976211068045. doi:10.1177/09567976211068045

Oberauer, K. (2022). When does working memory get better with longer time? (PDF, 4 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. doi:10.1037/xlm0001199

Oberauer, K., & Awh, E. (2022). Is there an activity-silent working memory? (PDF, 806 KB) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(12), 2360-2374. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01917

Oberauer, K., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., & Niklaus, M. (2022). Evidence against novelty-gated encoding in serial recall. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Cognition, 5. doi:10.5334/joc.207

Atkinson, A. L., Oberauer, K., Allen, R. J., & Souza, A. S. (2022). Why does the probe value effect emerge in working memory? Examining the biased attentional refreshing account. (PDF, 892 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-022-02056-6

Dames, H., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Directed forgetting in working memory. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 151(12), 2990-3008. doi:10.1037/xge0001256

Frischkorn, G. T., von Bastian, C. C., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Individual differences in updating are not related to reasoning ability and working memory capacity. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(6), 1341-1357. doi:10.1037/xge0001141

Frischkorn, G. T., Wilhelm, O., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Process-oriented intelligence research: A review from the cognitive perspective. (PDF, 1 MB) Intelligence, 94, 101681. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101681

Kowialiewski, B., Krasnoff, J., Mızrak, E., & Oberauer, K. (2022). The semantic relatedness effect in serial recall: Deconfounding encoding and recall order. (PDF, 775 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 127, 104377. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2022.104377

Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Computational Modeling in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. In J. T. Wixted (Ed.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 1-35).

Lin, H.-Y., & Oberauer, K. (2022). An interference model for visual working memory: Applications to the change detection task. (PDF, 4 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 133, 101463. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101463

Mızrak, E., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Working memory recruits long-term memory when it is beneficial: Evidence from the Hebb effect. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(4), 763-780. doi:10.1037/xge0000934 10.1037/xge0000934.supp (Supplemental)

Shepherdson, P., Hell, L., & Oberauer, K. (2022). How does visual working memory solve the binding problem? (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48, 1137-1152. doi:10.1037/xhp0001044

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Promoting visual long-term memories: When do we learn from repetitions of visuospatial arrays? (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 3114-3133. doi:10.1037/xge0001236

Oberauer, K. (2021). Measurement models for visual working memory—A factorial model comparison. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Review. doi:10.1037/rev0000328

Bartsch, L. M., & Oberauer, K. (2021). The effects of elaboration on working memory and long-term memory across age. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Memory and Language, 118, 104215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104215

Araya, C., Oberauer, K., & Saito, S. (2021). The Hebb repetition effect in complex span tasks: Evidence for a shared learning mechanism with simple span tasks. (PDF, 1 MB) Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01261-3

Frischkorn, G. T., & Oberauer, K. (2021). Intelligence test items varying in capacity demands cannot be used to test the causality of working memory capacity for fluid intelligence. (PDF, 2 MB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(4), 1423–1432. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01909-w

Goecke, B., & Oberauer, K. (2021). Is long-term memory used in a visuo-spatial change-detection paradigm? (PDF, 631 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(6), 1972–1981. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01951-8

Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2021). Worldview-motivated rejection of science and the norms of science. (PDF, 613 KB) Cognition, 215, 104820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104820

Oberauer, K. (2021). Towards a theory of working memory: From metaphors to mechanisms. (PDF, 8 MB) In R. H. Logie, V. Camos, & N. Cowan (Eds.), Working memory. State of the science (pp. 116-149). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842286.001.0001

Mızrak, E., & Oberauer, K. (2021). What Is Time Good for in Working Memory? (PDF, 498 KB) Psychological Science, 32(8), 1325–1337. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621996659

Oberauer, K., & Greve, W. (2021). Intentional remembering and intentional forgetting in working and long-term memory. (PDF, 8 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001106

Arnicane, A., Oberauer, K., & Souza, A. S. (2021). Validity of attention self-reports in younger and older adults. (PDF, 3 MB) Cognition, 206, 104482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104482

Bartsch, L. M., & Oberauer, K. (2020). Reactivated visual masks do not disrupt serial recall: A failed replication of rey et al. , 2018. (PDF, 1 MB) Experimental Psychology, 67(3), 178–185. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000486

Oberauer, K., & Souza, A. S. (2020). How fast can people refresh and rehearse information in working memory? (PDF, 2 MB) Memory & Cognition, 48(8), 1442–1459. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01062-0

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2020). No evidence that articulatory rehearsal improves complex span performance. (PDF, 4 MB) Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.103

Lewandowsky, S., Woike, J. K., & Oberauer, K. (2020). Genesis or evolution of gender differences? Worldview-based dilemmas in the processing of scientific information. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.99

Schmitz, F., Kunina-Habenicht, O., Hildebrandt, A., Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2020). Psychometrics of the iowa and berlin gambling tasks: Unresolved issues with reliability and validity for risk taking. (PDF, 186 KB) Assessment, 27(2), 232–245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191117750470

Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2020). Low replicability can support robust and efficient science. (PDF, 776 KB) Nature Communications, 11(1), 358. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14203-0

Majerus, S., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Working memory and serial order: Evidence against numerical order codes but for item–position associations. (PDF, 662 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000792

Oberauer, K. (2019). Is rehearsal an effective maintenance strategy for working memory? (PDF, 1 MB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 798–809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.002

Bartsch, L. M., Loaiza, V. M., Jäncke, L., Oberauer, K., & Lewis-Peacock, J. A. (2019). Dissociating refreshing and elaboration and their impacts on memory. (PDF, 433 KB) NeuroImage, 199, 585–597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.028

Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Simple measurement models for complex working-memory tasks. (PDF, 2 MB) Psychological Review, 126(6), 880–932. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000159

Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Addressing the theory crisis in psychology. (PDF, 850 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(5), 1596–1618. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01645-2

Oberauer, K. (2019d). Working Memory Capacity Limits Memory for Bindings. (PDF, 4 MB) Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.86

Thigpen, N., Petro, N. M., Oschwald, J., Oberauer, K., & Keil, A. (2019). Selection of Visual Objects in Perception and Working Memory One at a Time. (PDF, 2 MB) Psychological Science, 30(9), 1259–1272. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619854067

Oberauer, K. (2019a). Is Rehearsal an Effective Maintenance Strategy for Working Memory? (PDF, 1 MB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 798–809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.002

Oberauer, K. (2019c). Working Memory and Attention – Response to Commentaries. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.79

Oberauer, K. (2019b). Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 36. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.58

Rey-Mermet, A., Gade, M., Souza, A. S., von Bastian, C. C., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Is executive control related to working memory capacity and fluid intelligence? (PDF, 743 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(8), 1335–1372. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000593

Hülür, G., Keye-Ehing, D., Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2019). The Effect of Stimulus-Response Compatibility on the Association of Fluid Intelligence and Working Memory with Choice Reaction Times. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.66

Thalmann, M., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Revisiting the attentional demands of rehearsal in working-memory tasks. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.10.005

Lin, H.-Y., & Oberauer, K. (2019). How to say no in recognition tests of visual working memory: Testing unidimensional and two-dimensional models with continuous or discrete memory states. (PDF, 3 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000700

Bartsch, L. M., Loaiza, V. M., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Does limited working memory capacity underlie age differences in associative long-term memory? (PDF, 1 MB) Psychology and Aging, 34(2), 268–281. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000317

Niklaus, M., Singmann, H., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Two distinct mechanisms of selection in working memory: Additive last-item and retro-cue benefits. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognition, 183, 282–302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.11.015

Bartsch L.M., Singmann H., & Oberauer K. (2018). The effects of refreshing and elaboration on working memory performance, and their contributions to long-term memory formation. (PDF, 635 KB) Mem Cogn, 46, 796–808. doi: 10.3758/s13421-018-0805-9

Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Computational modeling in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. (PDF, 404 KB) In J. T. Wixted (Ed.), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 1–35). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119170174.epcn501

Lewis-Peacock J.A., Kessler Y., & Oberauer K. (2018). The removal of information from working memory. (PDF, 260 KB) Ann NY Acad Sci, doi: 10.1111/nyas.13714

Oberauer K. (2018). Removal of irrelevant information from working memory: sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes not at all. (PDF, 623 KB) Ann NY Acad Sci, 1424, 239-255. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13603

Oberauer K. (2018). On the Automaticity of Familiarity in Short- term Recognition: A Test of the Dual-Process Assumption with the PRP Paradigm. (PDF, 541 KB) Journal of Cognition, 1, 1-19. doi: 10.5334/joc.21

Oberauer K. et. al. (2018). Benchmarks for Models of Short-Term and Working Memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Bulletin, 144, 885-958. doi: 10.1037/bul0000153

Oberauer K. et. al. (2018). Benchmarks Provide Common Ground for Model Development: Reply to Logie (2018) and Vandierendonck (2018). (PDF, 78 KB) Psychological Bulletin, 144, 972-977. doi: 10.1037/bul0000165

Peteranderl S., & Oberauer K. (2018). Serial recall of colors: Two models of memory for serial order applied to continuous visual stimuli. (PDF, 822 KB) Mem Cogn, 46, 1-16. doi: 10.3758/s13421-017-0741-0

Schmitz, F., Kunina-Habenicht, O., Hildebrandt, A., Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2018). Psychometrics of the iowa and berlin gambling tasks: unresolved issues with reliability and validity for risk taking. (PDF, 288 KB) Assessment, 107319111775047. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191117750470

Shepherdson P. & Oberauer K. (2018). Pruning representations in a distributed model of working memory: a mechanism for refreshing and removal?. (PDF, 742 KB) Ann NY Acad Sci, 1424, 221-238. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13659

Shepherdson P., Oberauer K., & Souza A.S. (2018).Working Memory Load and the Retro-Cue Effect: A Diffusion Model Account. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44, 286-310. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000448

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Does articulatory rehearsal help immediate serial recall? (PDF, 1 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 107, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.09.002

Souza, A. S., Thalmann, M., & Oberauer, K. (2018). The precision of spatial selection into the focus of attention in working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 2281–2288. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1471-4

Souza A.S., Vergauwe E., & Oberauer K. (2018). Where to attend next: guiding refreshing of visual, spatial, and verbal representations in working memory. (PDF, 583 KB) Ann NY Acad Sci, 1424, 76-90. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13621

Gade M., Souza A.S., Druey M.D., & Oberauer K. (2017). Analogous selection processes in declarative and procedural working memory: N-2 list-repetition and task-repetition costs. Mem Cogn, 45, 26-39. doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0645-4

Oberauer K. (2017). What is working memory capacity? / ¿Qué es la capacidad de la memoria de trabajo?. (PDF, 1 MB) Estudios de Psicología, 38, 338-384. doi: 10.1080/02109395.2017.1295579

Oberauer K. & Lin H.-Y. (2017). An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Review, 124, 21-59. doi: 10.1037/rev0000044

Oberauer K., Awh E., & Sutterer D. W. (2017). The Role of Long-Term Memory in a Test of Visual Working Memory: Proactive Facilitation but No Proactive Interference. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 1-22. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000302

Oberauer K., Stoneking C., Wabersich D., & Lin H. (2017). Hierarchical Bayesian measurement models for continuous reproduction of visual features from working memory. (PDF, 2 MB) Journal of Vision, 17, 1-27. doi: 10.1167/17.5.11

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Souza A.S. & Oberauer K. (2017). Time to process information in working memory improves episodic memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 96, 155-167. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.07.002

Souza A.S. & Oberauer K. (2017). The contributions of visual and central attention to visual working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Atten Percept Psychophys, 79, 1897-1916. doi: 10.3758/s13414-017-1357-y

Thalmann M., & Oberauer K. (2017). Domain-specific interference between storage and processing in complex span is driven by cognitive and motor operations. (PDF, 1 MB) The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 109-126. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1125935

Souza A.S., & Oberauer K. (2016). In search of the focus of attention in working memory: 13 years of the retro-cue effect. (PDF, 1 MB) Atten Percept Psychophys, 78, 1839–1860. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1108-5
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Farrell S., Oberauer K., Greaves M., Pasiecznik K., Lewandowsky S., & Jarrold C. (2016). A test of interference versus decay in working memory: Varying distraction within lists in a complex span task. (PDF, 908 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 66-87. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.03.010

Göthe K., Oberauer K., & Kliegl R.(2016). Eliminating dual-task costs by minimizing crosstalk between tasks: The role of modality and feature pairings. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognition, 150, 92-108. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.003

Lewandowsky S., & Oberauer K. (2016). Motivated rejection of science. (PDF, 410 KB) Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 217-222. doi: 10.1177/0963721416654436

Lewandowsky S., Ballard T., Oberauer K., & Benestad R. (2016). A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data. (PDF, 341 KB) Global Environmental Change, 39, 91-97. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.013

Loaiza V., & Oberauer K. (2016). Working Memory in Older Age. (PDF, 133 KB) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_208-2

Oberauer K., & Lewandowsky S. (2016). Control of information in working memory: Encoding and removal of distractors in the complex-span paradigm. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognition, 156, 106-128. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.007

Oberauer K., Farrell S., Jarrold C., & Lewandowsky S. (2016). What limits working memory capacity? (PDF, 2 MB) Psychological Bulletin, 142(7), 758-799. doi: 10.1037/bul0000046

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2016). Getting more from visual working memory: Retro-cues enhance retrieval and protect from test interference. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 890-910. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000192

Oberauer K., Lin H.-Y. (2016). An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Review. doi: 10.1037/rev0000044
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Farrell S., Oberauer K., Greaves M., Pasiecznik K., Lewandowsky S., & Jarrold C. (2016). A test of interference versus decay in working memory: Varying distraction within lists in a complex span task. (PDF, 908 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 66-87. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.03.010

Göthe K., Oberauer K., & Kliegl R.(2016). Eliminating dual-task costs by minimizing crosstalk between tasks: The role of modality and feature pairings. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognition, 150, 92-108. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.003

Lewandowsky S., & Oberauer K. (2016). Motivated rejection of science. (PDF, 410 KB) Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 217-222. doi: 10.1177/0963721416654436

Lewandowsky S., Ballard T., Oberauer K., & Benestad R. (2016). A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data. (PDF, 341 KB) Global Environmental Change, 39, 91-97. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.013

Loaiza V., & Oberauer K. (2016). Working Memory in Older Age. (PDF, 133 KB) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_208-2

Oberauer K., & Lewandowsky S. (2016). Control of information in working memory: Encoding and removal of distractors in the complex-span paradigm. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognition, 156, 106-128. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.007

Oberauer K., Farrell S., Jarrold C., & Lewandowsky S. (2016). What limits working memory capacity? (PDF, 2 MB) Psychological Bulletin, 142(7), 758-799. doi: 10.1037/bul0000046

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2016). Getting more from visual working memory: Retro-cues enhance retrieval and protect from test interference. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 890-910. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000192

Oberauer K., Lin H.-Y. (2016). An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Review. doi: 10.1037/rev0000044

Hedge C., Oberauer K., & Leonards U. (2015). Selection in spatial working memory is independent of perceptual selective attention, but they interact in a shared spatial priority map. (PDF, 1021 KB) Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77(8), 2653-2668. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0976-4

Kessler Y., & Oberauer K.(2015). Forward scanning in verbal working memory updating. (PDF, 272 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22(6), 1770-1776. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0853-0

Lewandowsky S., Gignac G.E., & Oberauer K. (2015). The Robust Relationship Between Conspiracism and Denial of (Climate) Science. (PDF, 368 KB) Psychological Science, 26(5), 667-670. doi: 10.1177/0956797614568432

Lewandowsky S., & Oberauer K. (2015). Rehearsal in serial recall: An unworkable solution to the nonexistent problem of decay. (PDF, 783 KB) Psychological Review, 122(4), 674-699. doi: 10.1037/a0039684

Oberauer K., Jones T., & Lewandowsky S. (2015). The Hebb repetition effect in simple and complex memory span. (PDF, 1 MB) Memory and Cognition, 43(6), 852-865. doi: 10.3758/s13421-015-0512-8

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2015). Refreshing memory traces: Thinking of an item improves retrieval from visual working memory. (PDF, 408 KB) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339, 20-31. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12603

Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2015). Time-based forgetting in working memory reflects temporal distinctiveness, not decay. (PDF, 634 KB)Psychological Bulletin & Review, 22, 156-162

Gade, M., Druey, M. D., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Interference between declarative and procedural representations in working memory. (PDF, 924 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 174-194.

Kessler, Y., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Working Memory Updating Latency Reflects the Cost of Switching Between Maintenance and Updating Modes of Operation. (PDF, 756 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 738-754. doi:10.1037/a0035545.

Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. (PDF, 637 KB) Journal of Memory and Language. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2014.03.006

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., Lin, S-H., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Focused attention improves working memory: Implications for flexible-resource and discrete-capacity models. (PDF, 1 MB) Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Advance online publication. doi:10.3758/s13414-014-0687-2

Souza, A. S., Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Unloading and reloading working memory: Attending to one item frees capacity. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036331

Farrell, S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Working memory for cross-domain sequences. (PDF, 289 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(1), 33–44. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.795177

Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Further evidence against decay in working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Memory and Language, 73, 15–30. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2014.02.003

Rerko, L., Oberauer, K., & Lin, H.-Y. (2014). Spatial transposition gradients in visual working memory. (PDF, 298 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(1), 3–15. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.789543

Rerko, L., Souza, A. S., & Oberauer, K. (2014). Retro-cue benefits in working memory without sustained focal attention. (PDF, 754 KB) Memory & Cognition. doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0392-8

Rerko, L., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Focused, Unfocused, and Defocused Information in Working Memory. (PDF, 472 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(4), 1075-1096. doi:10.1037/a0031172.

Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. (PDF, 855 KB) Journal of Memory and Language. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.003

Keye, D., Wilhelm, O., Oberauer, K., & Stürmer, B. (2013). Individual differences in response conflict adaptations. (PDF, 2 MB) Frontiers in Psychology, 4(December), 1–15. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00947

von Bastian, C. C., & Oberauer, K. (in press). Effects and mechanisms of working memory training: a review. (PDF, 409 KB) Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-013-0524-6

Oberauer, K. (2013). The focus of attention in working memory-from metaphors to mechanisms. (PDF, 2 MB) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(October), 673. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00673

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Jünger, E., Kliegl, R., & Oberauer, K. (2013). No evidence for feature overwriting in visual working memory. (PDF, 315 KB) Memory, 1–16. doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.794243

Langer, N., von Bastian, C. C., Wirz, H., Oberauer, K., & Jäncke, L. (2013). The effects of working memory training on functional brain network efficiency. (PDF, 2 MB) Cortex, 49, 2424-2438. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.008

Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, G. E. (2013). NASA faked the moon landing--therefore, (climate) science is a hoax: an anatomy of the motivated rejection of science. (PDF, 485 KB) Psychological Science, 24(5), 622–33. doi:10.1177/0956797612457686

Oberauer, K., & Eichenberger, S. (2013). Visual working memory declines when more features must be remembered for each object. (PDF, 628 KB) Memory & Cognition. doi:10.3758/s13421-013-0333-6

von Bastian, C. C., Langer, N., Jäncke, L., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Effects of working memory training in young and old adults. (PDF, 673 KB) Memory & Cognition, 41(4), 611-624. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0280-7

Wilhelm, O., Hildebrandt, A., & Oberauer, K. (2013). What is working memory capacity, and how can we measure it? (PDF, 3 MB) Frontiers in Psychology, 4(July), 433. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00433

von Bastian, C. C., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Distinct transfer effects of training different facets of working memory capacity. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 36-58. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.02.002

Oberauer, K. & Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Evidence against decay in verbal working memory. (PDF, 485 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 380-411. doi: 10.1037/a0029588

Jones, T. & Oberauer, K. (2013). Serial-position effects for items and relations in short-term memory. (PDF, 249 KB) Memory, 21, 347-365. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2012.726629

Oberauer, K., Souza, A. S., Druey, M. D., & Gade M., (2013). Analogous mechanisms of selection and updating in declarative and procedural working memory: experiments and a computational model. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 66, 157-211. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.11.001

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Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Oberauer, K., & Marriott, M., (2013). Recursive fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation. (PDF, 1 MB) Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00073

LaRocque, J. J., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., Drysdale, A. T., Oberauer, K., & Postle, B. R. (2013). Decoding Attended Information in Short-term Memory: An EEG Study. (PDF, 365 KB) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 127–142. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00305

Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S.,Farrell, S.,Jarrold, C., & Greaves, M. (2012). Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span. (PDF, 3 MB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 779–819. doi:10.3758/s13423-012-0272-4

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Lewis-Peacock, J. A., Drysdale, A. T., Oberauer, K., & Postle, B. R. (2012). Neural evidence for a distinction between short-term memory and the focus of attention. (PDF, 456 KB) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 61–79. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_0014

Majerus, S., Martinez Perez, T., & Oberauer, K. (2012). Two distinct origins of long-term learning effects in verbal short-term memory. (PDF, 443 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 38–51. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.07.00

Oberauer, K., & Hein, L. (2012). Attention to Information in Working Memory. (PDF, 634 KB) Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 164–169. doi:10.1177/096372141244472

Oberauer, K., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., Pasiecznik, K., & Greaves, M. (2012). Interference between maintenance and processing in working memory: The effect of item–distractor similarity in complex span. (PDF, 762 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 665–685. doi:10.1037/a002633

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Souza, A. S., Oberauer, K., Gade, M., & Druey, M. D. (2012). Processing of representations in declarative and procedural working memory. (PDF, 1 MB) The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 1006–1033. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.64040

Oberauer & Lewandowsky (2011). Modeling working memory: a computational implementation of the Time-Based Resource-Sharing theory. Psychon Bull Rev (2011) 18: 10-45.

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Camos et al. (2011). Adaptive choice between articulatory rehearsal and attentional refreshing in verbal working memory. (PDF, 246 KB) Mem Cogn (2011) 39: 231–244.

Oberauer & Svetlana Bialkova (2011). Observation - Serial and Parallel Processes in Working Memory After Practice. (PDF, 867 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2011, Vol. 37, No. 2, 606-614.

Oberauer (2010). Declarative and Procedural Working Memory: Common Principles, common capacity limits? (PDF, 211 KB) Psychologica Belgica 2010, 50-3&4, 277-308.

Lewandowsky et al. (2010). Turning Simple Span Into Complex Span: Time for Decay or Interference From Distractors? (PDF, 313 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2010, Vol. 36, No. 4, 958–978.

Svetlana Bialkova & Klaus Oberauer (2010). Direct Access to Working Memory Contents. (PDF, 179 KB) Experimental Psychology 2010, Vol. 57(5), 383–389.

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Ecker et al. (2010). The Components of Working Memory Updating: An Experimental Decomposition and Individual Differences. (PDF, 232 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(1), 170–189

Risse & Oberauer (2009). Selection of objects and tasks in working memory. (PDF, 424 KB) The Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, 63(4), 784–804

van Ravenzwaaij & Oberauer (2009). How to use the diffusion model: Parameter recovery of three methods: EZ, fast-dm, and DMAT. (PDF, 584 KB) Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53, 463–473

Lewandowsky & Oberauer (2009). No Evidence for Temporal Decay in Working Memory. (PDF, 129 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(6), 1545–1551

Oberauer & Meyer (2009). The contributions of encoding, retention, and recall to the Hebb effect. (PDF, 93 KB) Memory, 17(7), 774-781.

Oberauer & Vockenberg (2009). Updating of working memory: Lingering bindings. (PDF, 320 KB) The Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, 62(5), 967–987

Keye et al. (2009). Structure and Correlates of the German Version of the Brief UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scales. (PDF, 158 KB) European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 25(3), 175–185

Lewandowsky et al. (2009). Response to Altmann: Adaptive forgetting by decay or removal of STM contents? (PDF, 116 KB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(7), 280-281.

Lewandowsky et al. (2009). Response to Barrouillet and Camos: Interference or decay in working memory? (PDF, 45 KB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(4), 146-147.

Oberauer (2009). Design for a Working Memory. (PDF, 626 KB) Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 51, 45-100

Oberauer, K. (2009). Interference between storage and processing in working memory: Feature overwriting, not similarity-based competition. (PDF, 173 KB) Memory & Cognition, 37, 346-357

Keye, D., Wilhelm, O., Oberauer, K., & van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2009). Individual differences in conflict-monitoring: testing means and covariance hypothesis about the Simon and the Eriksen Flanker task. (PDF, 1 MB) Psychological Research, 73(6), 762-776

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Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Brown, G.D.A., (2009). No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory. (PDF, 309 KB) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 120-126

Oberauer, K., & Bialkova, S., (2009). Accessing Information in Working Memory: Can the Focus of Attention Grasp Two Elements at the Same Time? (PDF, 303 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 64–87

Oberauer, K., & Lange, E.B. (2009). Activation and binding in verbal working memory: A dual-process model for the recognition of nonwords. (PDF, 352 KB) Cognitive Psychology, 58, 102–136

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Oberauer, K., Süss, H.-M., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W.W. (2008). Which working memory functions predict intelligence? (PDF, 456 KB) Intelligence, 36, 641-652

Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Forgetting in immediate serial recall: Decay, temporal distinctiveness, or interference? (PDF, 655 KB) Psychological Review, 115, 544-576.

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Oberauer, K., & Lange, E. B. (2008). Interference in verbal working memory: Distinguishing similarity-based confusion, feature overwriting, and feature migration. (PDF, 204 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 730-745

Göthe, K., & Oberauer, K. (2008). The integration of familiarity and recollection information in short-term recognition: Modeling speed-accuracy trade-off functions. (PDF, 372 KB) Psychological Research, 72, 289-303

Lewandowsky, S., Geiger, S. M., & Oberauer, K. (2008). Interference-based forgetting in short-term memory. (PDF, 496 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 200-222

Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2008). The word-length effect provides no evidence for decay in short-term memory. (PDF, 604 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 875-888

Oberauer, K. (2008). How to say no: Single- and dual-process theories of short-term recognition tested on negative probes. (PDF, 378 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 439-459

Oberauer, K., Weidenfeld, A., & Fischer, K. (2007). What makes us believe a conditional? The roles of covariation and causality. (PDF, 446 KB) Thinking & Reasoning, 13:4, 340-369

Oberauer, K., Süss, H.-M., Wilhelm, O., & Sander, N. (2007). Individual Differences in Working Memory: Capacity and Reasoning Ability. (PDF, 1 MB) Variation from Inter- and Intra-individual Differences, 49-75

Hudjetz, A., & Oberauer, K. (2007). The effects of processing time and processing rate on forgetting in working memory: Testing four models of the complex span paradigm. (PDF, 166 KB) Memory & Cognition, 35, 1675-1684

Göthe, K., Oberauer, K., & Kliegl, R. (2007). Age differences in dual-task performance after practice. (PDF, 356 KB) Psychology and Aging, 22, 596-606

Oberauer, K., Geiger, S. M., Fischer, K., & Weidenfeld, A. (2007). Two meanings of "if"? Individual differences in the interpretation of conditionals. (PDF, 326 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 790-819

Geiger, S. M., & Oberauer, K. (2007). Reasoning with conditionals: Does every counterexample count? It’s frequency that counts. (PDF, 239 KB) Memory & Cognition, 35, 2060-2074

Schmiedek, F., Oberauer, K., Wilhelm, O., Süß, H. M., & Wittmann, W. W. (2007). Individual differences in components of reaction time distributions and their relations to working memory and intelligence. (PDF, 380 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 414-429

Oberauer, K., & Kliegl, R. (2006). A formal model of capacity limits in working memory. (PDF, 812 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 601-626

Oberauer, K., Weidenfeld, A., & Hörnig, R. (2006). Working memory capacity and the construction of spatial mental models in comprehension and deductive reasoning. (PDF, 1 MB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 426-447

Oberauer, K. (2006). Is the focus of attention in working memory expanded through practice? (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32, 197-214

Hörnig, R., Oberauer, K., & Weidenfeld, A. (2006). Between reasoning. (PDF, 213 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1805-1825

Wilhelm, O., & Oberauer, K. (2006). Why are reasoning ability and working memory capacity related to mental speed? An investigation of stimulus-response compatibility in choice-reaction-time tasks. (PDF, 389 KB) European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 18-50

Oberauer, K. (2006). Reasoning with conditionals: A test of formal models of four theories. (PDF, 1 MB) Cognitive Psychology, 53, 238-283

Oberauer, K., & Göthe, K. (2006). Dual-task effects in working memory: Interference between two processing tasks, between two memory demands, and between storage and processing. (PDF, 155 KB) European Journal Of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 493-519

Oberauer, K., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Süß, H.-M. (2005). Working memory and intelligence - their correlation and their relation: Comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005). (PDF, 70 KB) Psychological Bulletin, 131, 61-65

Weidenfeld, A., Oberauer, K., & Hörnig, R. (2005). Causal and noncausal conditionals - an integrated model of interpretation and reasoning. (PDF, 234 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1479-1513

Oberauer, K., Hörnig, R., Weidenfeld, A., & Wilhelm, O. (2005). Effects of directionality in deductive reasoning, II: Premise integration and conclusion evaluation. (PDF, 189 KB) Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1225-1247

Hörnig, R., Oberauer, K., & Weidenfeld, A. (2005). Two principles of premise integration in spatial reasoning. (PDF, 202 KB) Memory & Cognition, 33, 131-139

Lange, E., & Oberauer, K. (2005). Overwriting of phonemic features in serial recall. (PDF, 96 KB) Memory, 13, 333-339

Oberauer, K. (2005). Binding and inhibition in working memory - individual and age differences in short-term recognition. (PDF, 928 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134, 368-387

Oberauer, K. (2005). Control of the contents of working memory - a comparison of two paradigms and two age groups. (PDF, 314 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 714-728

Oberauer, K., Lange, E., & Engle, R. W. (2004). Working memory capacity and resistance to interference. (PDF, 258 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 80-96

Oberauer, K., & Kliegl, R. (2004). Simultaneous execution of two cognitive operations - Evidence from a continuous updating paradigm. (PDF, 355 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 689-707

Oberauer, K., Weidenfeld, A., & Hörnig, R. (2004). Logical reasoning and probabilities: A comprehensive test of Oaksford and Chater (2001). (PDF, 181 KB) Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 521-527

Oberauer, K. (2003). Selective attention to elements in working memory. (PDF, 187 KB) Experimental Psychology, 50, 257-269

Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2003). The meaning(s) of conditionals - Conditional probabilities, mental models, and personal utilities. (PDF, 181 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 29, 680-693

Oberauer, K., Wendland, M., & Kliegl, R. (2003). Age differences in working memory: The roles of storage and selective access. (PDF, 179 KB) Memory & Cognition, 31, 563-569

Oberauer, K. (2003). Understanding serial position curves in short-term recognition and recall. (PDF, 180 KB) Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 469-483

Oberauer, K., Süß, H.-M., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W. W. (2003). The multiple faces of working memory - storage, processing, supervision, and coordination. (PDF, 273 KB) Intelligence, 31, 167-193

Süß, H.-M., Oberauer, K., Wittmann, W. W., Wilhelm, O., & Schulze, R. (2002). Working memory capacity explains reasoning ability - and a little bit more. (PDF, 643 KB) Intelligence, 30, 261-288

Oberauer, K. (2002). Access to information in working memory: Exploring the focus of attention. (PDF, 109 KB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 411-421

Oberauer, K., Demmrich, A., Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (2001). Dissociating retention and access in working memory: An age-comparative study of mental arithmetic. (PDF, 1 MB) Memory & Cognition, 29, 18-33

Oberauer, K., & Kliegl, R. (2001). Beyond resources: Formal models of complexity effects and age differences in working memory. (PDF, 318 KB) European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 187-215

Oberauer, K. (2001). Removing irrelevant information from working memory. A cognitive aging study with the modified Sternberg task. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 948-957

Oberauer, K., & Wilhelm, O. (2000). Effects of directionality in deductive reasoning: I. The comprehension of single relational premises. (PDF, 1 MB) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 1702-1712

Oberauer, K., Süß, H.-M., Schulze, R., Wilhelm, O., & Wittmann, W. W. (2000). Working memory capacity - facets of a cognitive ability construct. (PDF, 430 KB) Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1017-1045

Oberauer, K., Wilhelm, O., & Rosas Diaz, R. (1999). Bayesian rationality for the selection task? A test of optimal data selection theory. (PDF, 10 MB) Thinking & Reasoning, 5, 115-144