CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. Evolving Concepts of Working Memory -- Early Concepts of Working Memory -- Production-System Models -- Associative-Network Models -- Working Memory and Reading Comprehension -- A General Resource or a Domain-Specific Resource? -- Reading Comprehension and Working-Memory Capacity -- The Role of Inhibitory Processes -- Multicomponent Models of Working Memory -- Conclusion -- 2. The Seven Ages of Working Memory -- Age I: Working Memory as Contemplation -- Age II: Working Memory as Primary Memory -- Age III: Working Memory as Short-Term Memory -- Age IV: Working Memory as Processor -- Age V: Working Memory as a Constraint on Language Comprehension -- Age VI: Working Memory as Activation, Attention, and Expertise -- Age VII: Working Memory as Multiple Components -- Multiple Components and Dual-Task Performance -- The Model of Baddeley and Hitch -- The Multiple-Component Model: Gateway or Workspace? -- Working Memory as a Workspace, Not a Gateway -- Conclusion -- 3. Working Memory and Aging: Current Status of the Inhibitory View -- Working Memory and the Limited-Capacity Assumption -- Individual Differences in Working-Memory Capacity -- Group Differences in Working-Memory Capacity Associated with Aging -- An Alternative View to Capacity -- Further Considerations and Future Directions -- 4. Working Memory and Retrieval: An Inhibition-Resource Approach -- Free Retrieval from Natural Categories -- Speeded Recognition of Simple Facts -- Issues in Explaining Individual Differences in Working-Memory Capacity -- An Inhibition-Resource Hypothesis of Working-Memory Capacity -- Conclusion -- 5. Evolving Issues in Working Memory -- Working Memory and Long-Term Memory -- The Capacity of Working Memory -- Inhibitory Processes in Working Memory -- The Gateway Hypothesis -- A Single Component or a Complex System.

Reading Span and Memory Span -- A General Resource or a Domain-Specific Resource? -- Verbal and Visuospatial Working Memory -- The Phonological Loop -- The Visuospatial Scratchpad -- The Central Executive -- Conclusion -- AUTHOR INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.