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Books

• Conway, A.R.A., Jarrold, C., Kane, M.J., Miyake, A., & Towse, J.N. (2007). Variation in working memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journals and Serials

• McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (in press). Conducting the train of thought: Working memory capacity, goal neglect, and mind wandering in an executive-control task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (in press). Working memory capacity predicts the executive control of visual search among distractors: The influence of sustained and selective attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Baily, H., Dunlosky, J., & Kane, M.J. (in press). Why does working memory capacity predict complex cognition? Testing the strategy-affordance hypothesis. Memory & Cognition.
• Moore, A.B., Clark, B.A., & Kane, M.J. (2008). Who shalt not kill? Individual differences in working memory capacity, executive control, and moral judgment. Psychological Science, 19, 549-557.
• Knouse, L.E., Mitchell, J.T., Brown, L.H., Silvia, P.J., Kane, M.J., Myin-Germeys, I., & Kwapil, T.R. (2008). The expression of adult AD/HD symptoms in daily life: An application of experience sampling methodology. Journal of Attention Disorders, 11, 652-663.
• Kane, M.J., Brown, L.E., Little, J.C., Silvia, P.J., Myin-Germeys, I., & Kwapil, T.R. (2007). For whom the mind wanders, and when: An experience-sampling study of working memory and executive control in daily life. Psychological Science, 18, 614-621.
• Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., Miura, T.K., & Colflesh, G.J.H. (2007). Working memory, attention control, and the n-back task: A question of construct validity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 615-622.
• Kane, M.J., & Miyake, T.M. (2007). The validity of "conceptual span" as a measure of working memory capacity. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1136-1150.
• Sobel, K.V., Gerrie, M.P., Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (2007). Individual differences in working memory capacity and visual search: The roles of top-down and bottom-up processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 840-845.
• Dunlosky, J., & Kane, M.J. (2007). The contributions of strategy use to working memory span: A comparison of strategy-assessment methods. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1227-1245.
• Kane, M.J., Poole, B.J., Tuholski, S.W., & Engle, R.W. (2006). Working memory capacity and the top-down control of visual search: Exploring the boundaries of "executive attention" . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 749-777.
• Heitz, R.P., Redick, T.S., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (2006). Working memory, executive function, and general fluid intelligence are not the same. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 135-136.
• Conway, A.R.A., Kane, M.J., Bunting, M.F., Hambrick, D.Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R.W. (2005). Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 769-786.
• Kane, M.J., Hambrick, D.Z., & Conway, A.R.A. (2005). Working memory capacity and fluid intelligence are strongly related constructs: Comment on Ackerman, Beier, and Boyle (2005). Psychological Bulletin, 131, 66-71.
• Kane, M.J., Hambrick, D.Z., Tuholski, S.W., Wilhelm, O., Payne, T.W., & Engle, R.W. (2004). The domain generality of working-memory capacity: A latent-variable approach to verbal and spatial memory span and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 189-217.
• Engle, R.W., & Kane, M.J. (2004). Executive attention, working memory capacity, and a two-factor theory of cognitive control. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, volume 44 (pp. 145 - 199). New York: Academic Press.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2003). Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal maintenance, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 47-70.
• Conway, A.R.A., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2003). Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 547-552.
• Kane, M.J. (2003). The intelligent brain in conflict. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 375-377.
• Kane, M.J. (2003). A limited perspective on working memory? Book review of Working Memory in Perspective. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 313-317.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2002). The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 637-671.
• Kane, M.J., Bleckley, M.K., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (2001). A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 169-183.
• Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2000). Working memory capacity, proactive interference, and divided attention: Limits on long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 336-358.
• May, C.P., Hasher, L., & Kane, M.J. (1999). The role of interference in memory span. Memory and Cognition, 27, 759-767.
• Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Engle, R.W. (1999). What do working memory tests really measure? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 101-102.
• Conway, A.R.A., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (1999). Is Spearman's g determined by speed or working memory capacity? [Review of the book, The g Factor; The Science of Mental Ability] Psycoloquy, 10 (074).
• Kane, M.J., May, C.P., Hasher, L., Rahhal, T., & Stoltzfus, E.R. (1997). Dual mechanisms of negative priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 632-650.
• Hasher, L., Zacks, R.T., Stoltzfus, E.R., Kane, M.J., & Connelly, S.L. (1996). On the timecourse of negative priming: Another look. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3, 231-237.
• May, C.P., Kane, M.J., & Hasher, L. (1995). Determinants of negative priming. Psychological Bulletin, 118, 35-54.
• Kane, M.J., & Hasher, L., Stoltzfus, E.R., Zacks, R.T., & Connelly, S.L. (1994). Inhibitory attentional mechanisms and aging. Psychology and Aging, 9, 103-112.
• Kane, M.J. (1994). Premonitory urges as “attentional tics” in Tourette's Syndrome. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 805-808.

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

• Kane, M.J., & Miyake, T.M. (2008). Individual differences in episodic memory. In H.L. Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Vol 2. of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 4 vols. (J. Byrne, Editor). Oxford: Elsevier.
• Bunch, R., Nelson, E., Lloyd, R., Kane, M.J., & Tricot, T. (2008). Instructional geographic information science: A multidisciplinary framework for geospatial technologies in education. In A. Milson & A. Alibrandi (Eds.), Digital Geography: Geo-Spatial Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom (pp. 227-245) . Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
• Conway, A.R.A., Jarrold, C., Kane, M.J., Miyake, A., & Towse, J.N. (2007). Variation in working memory: An introduction. In A.R.A. Conway, C. Jarrold, M.J. Kane, A. Miyake, & J.N. Towse, (Eds.), Variation in working memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R.W. (2007). Variation in working memory as variation in executive attention and control. In A.R.A. Conway, C. Jarrold, M.J. Kane, A. Miyake, & J.N. Towse, (Eds.), Variation in working memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Cowan, N., Kane, M.J., Conway, A.R.A., & Ipsa-Cowan, A.J. (2006). Stupid brain! Homer's working memory odyssey. In A. Brown & C. Logan (Eds.), D'oh! The psychology of the Simpsons (pp. 46 - 64). Dallas, TX: BenBella Books.
• Kane, M.J., & Gray, J.R. (in press). Fluid intelligence. To appear in N.J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Kane, M.J. (2005). Full frontal fluidity? Looking in on the neuroimaging of reasoning and intelligence. In O. Wilhelm & R.W. Engle (Eds.), Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence (pp. 141-163). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2005). The role of working memory in higher-level cognition: Domain-specific versus domain-general perspectives. In R. Sternberg & J.E. Pretz (Eds.), Cognition and Intelligence: Identifying the mechanisms of the mind (pp. 104 - 121). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Conway, A.R.A., & Kane, M.J. (2001). Capacity, control and conflict: An individual differences perspective on attentional capture. In C. Folk and B. Gibson (Eds.), Attraction, Distraction and Action: Multiple Perspectives on Attention Capture (pp. 349 - 372). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
• Engle, R.W., Kane, M.J., & Tuholski, S.W. (1999). Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.), Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control (pp. 102-134). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Kane, M.J., & Hasher, L. (1995). Interference. In G. Maddox (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Aging (2nd edition, pp. 514-516). New York: Springer-Verlag.

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