Michael J. Kane

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Invited Papers at Professional Conferences

• Kane, M.J. (2008). Working memory capacity is (little more than) executive attention?! Keynote address at the 4th European Working Memory Workshop (EWOMS-4), Bristol, England.
• Kane, M.J. (2008). Working memory, attention control, and conscious experience. Invited symposium paper at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
• McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2008). Not quite 'all aboard': Individual differences in working memory capacity and the train of thought. Invited paper (delivered by J. McVay) at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
• Kane, M.J. (2007). Thinking is for doing: Individual differences in working memory, inattention, and goal-neglect errors. Invited paper at the International Symposium on Executive Function in the Mind, Kyoto, Japan.
• Kane, M.J. (2006). For whom the mind wanders...and when . Invited symposium paper at the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), Sydney, Australia.
• Kane, M.J. (2004). Working-memory capacity and executive control of task-set switching. Invited paper at the Second International Conference on Working Memory, Kyoto, Japan
• Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R.W. (2003). Variation in working-memory capacity as variation in executive attention. Invited paper at the Variation in Working Memory symposium, Chicago, IL.
• Kane, M.J. (2003). Exploring executive control by exploiting individual differences in working-memory capacity. Invited paper at the International Workshop on Executive Functions, Kyoto, Japan.
• Kane, M.J. (2002). Working-memory capacity as a unitary attentional construct. Invited paper at the symposium, “Approaches to Cognitive Control and the Central Executive” at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Kansas City, MO.
• Kane, M.J. (2001). The roles of working-memory capacity, goal maintenance and task set in selective attention. Invited paper at the South Carolina Bicentennial Symposium on Attention. Columbia, SC.
• Kane, M.J. (2000). Teaching undergraduates to question “weird” beliefs. Invited paper at the symposium, “Teaching Students to Question Popular Beliefs” at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Tucson, AZ.
• Kane, M.J. (1997). Exploring the role of attention failure in forgetting. Invited paper at The Innovationskolleg “Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity,” Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Studies, Potsdam, Germany.
• Engle, R.W., Tuholski, S.W., & Kane, M.J. (1997). Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex. Invited paper at the “Models of Working Memory Symposium,” Boulder, CO.

Presentations at Professional Conferences

• Miyake, T.M., & Kane, M.J. (2006). Metacognitive monitoring for proactive interferences at encoding and retrieval . Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Houston, TX.
• Moore, A.B., Clark, B., Holmes, S., & Kane, M.J. (2006). Who shalt not kill? Cognitive control and moral reasoning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Houston, TX.
• Kane, M.J. (2006). For whom the mind wanders, and when. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.
• Sobel, K., Gerrie, M., Kane, M.J., & Poole, B.J. (2006). Working memory capacity influences the top-down factors in visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
• Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (2005). Working memory capacity and the control of visual search. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
• Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (2005). The role of working memory capacity and attention control in visual search . Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Miyake, T.M., & Kane, M.J. (2004). Exploring the “conceptual span” task of semantic working memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
• Poole, B.J., Kane, M.J., Tuholski, S.W., & Engle, R.W. (2004). Working-memory capacity, visual search and enumeration. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Miyake, T.M., & Kane, M.J. (2004). Does semantic STM capacity play a special role in comprehension? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Miyake, T.M., & Kane, M.J. (2004). “Conceptual span” as a measure of semantic short-term memory. Poster at the Second International Conference on Working Memory, Kyoto, Japan.
• Kane, M.J., Poole, B.J., Tuholski, S.W., & Engle, R.W. (2003). Working memory capacity and executive control in search and switching. Paper at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
• Kane, M.J., Hambrick, D.Z., Tuholski, S.W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T., & Engle, R.W. (2002). The domain-generality of working-memory capacity. Paper at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Kane, M. J. (2002). The domain-generality of working-memory capacity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Nashville, TN.
• Miura, T.K., Conway, A.R.A., & Kane, M.J. (2002). Working memory limitations and the N-back task. Paper at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Conway, A.R.A., & Kane, M.J. (2001). ACDC meets ABBA: An experimental task analysis of the N-back. Paper at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2000). Working memory, task set, and Stroop interference in speed and accuracy. Poster at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2000). Working memory capacity and goal neglect in the Stroop task. Paper at annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Kane, M.J., Sanchez, A., & Engle, R.W. (1999). Working memory capacity, intelligence, and goal neglect in the Stroop task. Poster at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
• Engle, R.W., Kane, M.J., & Bleckley, M.K. (1999). A controlled attention view of working memory capacity. Paper at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (1999). Working memory capacity predicts task switching efficiency. Paper at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (1998). Working memory capacity corresponds to controlled attention differences. Poster at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (1998). Individual differences in working memory, attentional control, and proactive interference. Paper at annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.
• May, C.P., Kane, M.J., Hasher, L., & Valenti, M. (1996). Proactive interference and working memory span. Paper at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
• May, C.P., Kane, M.J., Hasher, L., Multhaup, K., & Valenti, M. (1996). Working memory span tasks: Capacity or proactive interference? Paper at biannual Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Oswald, K., Hasher, L., Kane, M.J., & May, C.P.(1996). Is seeing really believing? Effects of repeated exposure on memory for events .Poster at annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
• Kane, M.J., & Hasher, L. (1995). Fan interference is absent in semantic priming. Poster at annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
• Hasher, L., Kane, M.J., May, C.P., Rahhal, T., & Stoltzfus, E.R. (1994). Dual mechanisms of negative priming: Evidence from aging. Paper at biannual Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Hasher, L., Kane, M.J., Stoltzfus, E.R., Zacks, R.T., & Connelly, S.L. (1993). Failures of methodological manipulations to elicit negative priming in older adults. Poster at annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

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