Randall Engle, du Georgia Institute of Technology donnera le vendredi 3 avril dans l’après-midi une conférence intitulée "Working memory capacity/Executive attention as both a state and a trait variable"
Cette conférence aura lieu en anglais.
Nouvel horaire !
Pour éviter de donner la conférence pendant les activités de grève des professeurs et pendant la conférence de Jerry Fodor, la conférence de Randall Engle aura lieu le vendredi 3 avril à 10h du matin, en salle DS-1950 (UQAM, Pavillon DeSèves, métro Berri-UQAM) . Du café, des jus et des viennoiseries vous attendront pour cette conférence à l’horaire matinal...
Abstract :Early conceptions of cognitive limitations were based on a limited number of items or chunks such as 7 ± 2 or 4 ± 1. However, more recent thinking focuses on abiding individual differences in cognitive control and the role those differences play in other complex cognitive tasks. It is further clear that working memory capacity (WMC) should be thought of as a construct or variable that mediates between many other variables and a wide range of cognitive tasks in which control is required or useful. In a sense, we can think of working memory capacity as both a trait and state variable. Individual differences is one important determinant of working memory capacity but other variables ranging from sleep deprivation to secondary cognitive load to stereotype threat and social pressure will lead to temporary reduction in capability for cognitive control in a wide array of real-world cognitive tasks.