Nelson Cowan

Nelson Cowan ( born March 7, 1951 in Washington, DC) is an American psychologist.

Cowan mainly engaged in the working memory and its development. In 1999 he published his model of working memory " Embedded Processing Model of Working Memory". He is a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri- Columbia.

Cowan received in 1973 a Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1977 and made the master at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. There he received his doctorate in 1980 with the dissertation " Toward an understanding of morphological segmentation in unfamiliar languages ​​. "

Works

  • Cowan, N. ( 2005): Working memory capacity. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
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