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Michael Bunting
Assistant Research Scientist

Area: Cognitive Neuroscience

Education:
  • B.A., Loras College, 1997
  • M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999
  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003

Research Interests:
    The nature and organization of working memory and selective attention and the cognitive deterninates of human aptitude and acquired abilities, including reasoning and general intelligence, complex skill acquisition, and language processing and learning.

CASL Research Projects:

Selected Publications:

How Does Running Memory Span Work?

Modeling Working Memory Span with an Attractor Neural Network

The role of processing difficulty in the predictive utility of working memory span

Proactive interference and item similarity in working memory

Cognitive effort in skill acquisition: Pupillometric correlates of workload and capacity

Individual Differences in Susceptibility to False Memory in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm

Individual differences in skill acquisition on a logic gate task

Individual differences in the fan effect and working memory capacity

A new way to combine storage and processing in working memory: Distraction under time pressure at retrieval

Bye-Bye buffers: Temporary storage is (partially) a matter of attention

Working memory capacity affects how to-be-ignored information is processed

Retrieval cue interference in the conceptual span task

Why working memory measures "work": Proactive interference in tests of immediate memory

An evaluation of scoring methods for verbal working memory measures

Predicting near-native L2 ability

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