About: Nelson Cowan

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Nelson Cowan is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He specializes in working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and used for language processing and various kinds of problem solving. To overcome conceptual difficulties that arise for models of information processing in which different functions occur in separate boxes, Cowan proposed a more organically organized "embedded processes" model. Within it, representations held in working memory comprise an activated subset of the representations held in long-term memory, with a smaller subset held in a more integrated form in the current focus of attention. Other work has been on the developmental growth of working memory capacity and the scientific method. His work, f

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  • نيلسون كوان (بالإنجليزية: Nelson Cowan)‏ هو عالم نفس أمريكي، ولد في 7 مارس 1951 في واشنطن العاصمة في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Nelson Cowan (* 7. März 1951 in Washington, D.C.) ist ein US-amerikanischer Psychologe. Cowan beschäftigt sich überwiegend mit dem Arbeitsgedächtnis und dessen Entwicklung. 1999 veröffentlichte er sein Arbeitsgedächtnismodell „Embedded Processing Model of Working Memory“. Er lehrt als Professor für Psychologie an der University of Missouri-Columbia. Cowan erhielt 1973 den Bachelor of Science an der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor und machte 1977 den Master an der University of Wisconsin in Madison. Dort promovierte er 1980 mit der Dissertation „Toward an understanding of morphological segmentation in unfamiliar languages.“ (de)
  • Nelson Cowan is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He specializes in working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and used for language processing and various kinds of problem solving. To overcome conceptual difficulties that arise for models of information processing in which different functions occur in separate boxes, Cowan proposed a more organically organized "embedded processes" model. Within it, representations held in working memory comprise an activated subset of the representations held in long-term memory, with a smaller subset held in a more integrated form in the current focus of attention. Other work has been on the developmental growth of working memory capacity and the scientific method. His work, funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1984 (primarily NICHD), has been cited over 41,000 times according to Google Scholar. The work has resulted in over 250 peer-reviewed articles, over 60 book chapters, 2 sole-authored books, and 4 edited volumes. In addition to basic scientific work, Cowan's collaborative research related to working memory has led to clarification of the role of memory in language disorders, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, amnesia, and alcoholic intoxication, as explained further on his web site and CV. For example, the work on amnesia indicates that individuals who usually cannot form new memories because of stroke or brain damage often demonstrate considerable ability to do so when the information to be memorized is surrounded by several minutes with minimal visual or acoustic interference. (en)
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  • Lewis A. Leavitt , Martin Braine (en)
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  • Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science ; Honorary doctorates ; Society of Experimental Psychologists; President’s Faculty Award for Sustained Excellence, University of Missouri System, 2011; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012; Fellow, American Psychological Association and Charter Fellow, Association for Psychological Science; Golden Chalk Award, for graduate teaching and education, University of Missouri, 1999. (en)
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  • American (en)
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  • Philip A. Morse (en)
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  • Link to image on Cowan's web site (en)
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  • Nelson Cowan (en)
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  • Jean Ispa (en)
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  • Toward an understanding of morphological segmentation in unfamiliar languages (en)
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  • 1980 (xsd:integer)
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  • نيلسون كوان (بالإنجليزية: Nelson Cowan)‏ هو عالم نفس أمريكي، ولد في 7 مارس 1951 في واشنطن العاصمة في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Nelson Cowan (* 7. März 1951 in Washington, D.C.) ist ein US-amerikanischer Psychologe. Cowan beschäftigt sich überwiegend mit dem Arbeitsgedächtnis und dessen Entwicklung. 1999 veröffentlichte er sein Arbeitsgedächtnismodell „Embedded Processing Model of Working Memory“. Er lehrt als Professor für Psychologie an der University of Missouri-Columbia. (de)
  • Nelson Cowan is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He specializes in working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and used for language processing and various kinds of problem solving. To overcome conceptual difficulties that arise for models of information processing in which different functions occur in separate boxes, Cowan proposed a more organically organized "embedded processes" model. Within it, representations held in working memory comprise an activated subset of the representations held in long-term memory, with a smaller subset held in a more integrated form in the current focus of attention. Other work has been on the developmental growth of working memory capacity and the scientific method. His work, f (en)
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  • نيلسون كوان (ar)
  • Nelson Cowan (de)
  • Nelson Cowan (en)
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