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Birth Name:

Nelson Cowan

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Mar 07, 1951

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States

Age:

73

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

16°

Pis

19'

About Nelson Cowan

Nelson Cowan (born March 7, 1951) 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.

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External Links:

• Nelson Cowan's homepage with link to updated CV

• Working Memory Lab

• Nelson Cowan publications indexed by Google Scholar

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