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Overview

Nash Unsworth is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their research primarily spans Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with additional work touching on Social Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Cognitive Functions and Memory
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Unsworth has published in several notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Recent published papers include:

  • "A multi-faceted approach to understanding individual differences in mind-wandering," 2020, Cognition
  • "Individual differences in lapses of attention: A latent variable analysis," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Are individual differences in attention control related to working memory capacity? A latent variable mega-analysis," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention," 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Examining the effects of goal-setting, feedback, and incentives on sustained attention," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Frequent collaborators in Unsworth's work include:

  • Ashley L. Miller
  • Matthew K. Robison
  • Deanna L. Strayer
  • Gene A. Brewer
  • Ania M Grudzien

Best Publications

  • An automated version of the operation span task.

    Nash Unsworth;Richard P. Heitz;Josef C. Schrock;Randall W. Engle

  • The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

    Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • On the Division of Short-Term and Working Memory: An Examination of Simple and Complex Span and Their Relation to Higher Order Abilities.

    Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • Working memory and fluid intelligence: capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval.

    Nash Unsworth;Keisuke Fukuda;Edward Awh;Edward K. Vogel

  • Measuring Working Memory Capacity With Automated Complex Span Tasks

    Thomas S. Redick;James M. Broadway;Matt E. Meier;Princy S. Kuriakose

  • Complex working memory span tasks and higher-order cognition: A latent-variable analysis of the relationship between processing and storage

    Nash Unsworth;Thomas S. Redick;Richard P. Heitz;James M. Broadway

  • Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: individual differences in voluntary saccade control.

    Nash Unsworth;Josef C. Schrock;Randall W. Engle

  • Working memory capacity: Attention control, secondary memory, or both? A direct test of the dual-component model

    Nash Unsworth;Gregory J. Spillers

  • Mind Wandering and Reading Comprehension: Examining the Roles of Working Memory Capacity, Interest, Motivation, and Topic Experience.

    Nash Unsworth;Brittany D. McMillan

  • Working memory capacity and fluid abilities: Examining the correlation between Operation Span and Raven

    Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • Simple and complex memory spans and their relation to fluid abilities: Evidence from list-length effects

    Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • Pupillary correlates of lapses of sustained attention

    Nash Unsworth;Matthew K. Robison

  • Variation in verbal fluency: a latent variable analysis of clustering, switching, and overall performance.

    Nash Unsworth;Gregory J. Spillers;Gene A. Brewer

  • Individual differences in working memory capacity and learning: evidence from the serial reaction time task.

    Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • A locus coeruleus-norepinephrine account of individual differences in working memory capacity and attention control

    Nash Unsworth;Matthew K. Robison

  • Lapses in sustained attention and their relation to executive control and fluid abilities: An individual differences investigation

    Nash Unsworth;Thomas S. Redick;Chad E. Lakey;Diana L. Young

  • Similarities and differences between mind-wandering and external distraction: A latent variable analysis of lapses of attention and their relation to cognitive abilities

    Nash Unsworth;Brittany D. McMillan

  • Working Memory Capacity, Attention Control, and Fluid Intelligence

    Richard P. Heitz;Nash Unsworth;Randall W. Engle

  • Everyday attention failures: an individual differences investigation.

    Nash Unsworth;Brittany D. McMillan;Gene A. Brewer;Gregory J. Spillers

  • Is Playing Video Games Related to Cognitive Abilities

    Nash Unsworth;Thomas S. Redick;Brittany D. McMillan;David Z. Hambrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle Georgia Institute of Technology
Edward Awh
Edward Awh University of Chicago
Thomas S. Redick
Thomas S. Redick Purdue University West Lafayette
Edward K. Vogel
Edward K. Vogel University of Chicago
Michael J. Kane
Michael J. Kane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
David Z. Hambrick
David Z. Hambrick Michigan State University
Brett A. Clementz
Brett A. Clementz University of Georgia
Jennifer E. McDowell
Jennifer E. McDowell University of Georgia
Richard L. Marsh
Richard L. Marsh University of Georgia
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell University of Georgia

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