Publications
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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
2020-present
Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R.M., Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A., Booth, R.A., Kwapil, T.R., Silvia, P.J., & Kane, M.J. (in press). Variation in divergent thinking, executive-control abilities, and mind-wandering measured in and out of the laboratory. Creativity Research Journal.
Zeitlen, D.C., Silvia, P.J., Kane, M.J., & Beaty, R.E. (in press). The creative mind in daily life: How cognitive and affective experiences relate to creative thinking and behavior. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Welhaf, M.S., & Kane, M.J. (2024). A nomothetic span approach to the construct validation of sustained attention consistency: Re-analyzing two latent-variable studies of performance variability and mind-wandering self-reports. Psychological Research, 88, 39-80.
Welhaf, M.S., & Kane, M.J. (2023). A combined experimental-correlational approach to the construct validity of performance-based and self-report-based measures of sustained attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86, 109-145.
Silman, A.K., Chhabria, R., Hafzalla, G.W., Giffin, L., Kucharski, K., Myers, K., Culquichicon, C., Montero, S., Lescano, A.G., Vega, C.M., Fernandez, L.E., Silman, M. R., Kane, M.J., & Sanders, J.W. (2022). Impairment in working memory and executive function associated with mercury exposure in indigenous populations in upper Amazonian Peru. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 10909. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710989
Miyake, A., & Kane, M.J. (2022). Toward a holistic approach to reducing academic procrastination with classroom interventions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 291-304.
Welhaf, M.S., Phillips, N.E., Smeekens, B.A., Miyake, A., & Kane, M.J. (2022). Interpolated testing and content pretesting as interventions to reduce task-unrelated thoughts during a video lecture. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7: article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00372-y
Welhaf, M.S., Meier, M.E., Smeekens, B.A., Silvia, P.J., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2022). A "Goldilocks Zone" for mind wandering reports? A secondary data analysis of how few thought probes are enough for reliable and valid measurement. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 327-347.
Kane, M.J., Smeekens, B.A., Meier, M.E., Welhaf, M.S., & Phillips, N.E. (2021). Testing the construct validity of competing measurement approaches to probed mind-wandering reports. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 2372-2411.
Kane, M.J., Carruth, N.P., Lurquin, J.H., Silvia, P.J., Smeekens, B.A., von Bastian, C.C., & Miyake, A. (2021). Individual differences in task-unrelated thought in university classrooms. Memory & Cognition, 45, 1247-1266.
Goring, S.A., Schmank, C.J., Kane, M.J., & Conway, A.R.A. (2021). Psychometric models of individual differences in reading comprehension: A reanalysis of Freed, Hamilton, and Long (2017). Journal of Memory and Language, 119.
Erb, C.D., Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A., Moreau, D., Kane, M.J., & Marcovitch, S. (2021). Linking the dynamics of cognitive control to individual differences in working memory capacity: Evidence from reaching behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47, 1383-1402.
Frith, E., Elbich, D.B., Christensen, A.P., Rosenberg, M.D., Chen, Q., Kane, M.J., Silvia, P.J., Seli, P., & Beaty, R.E. (2021). Intelligence and creativity share a common cognitive and neural basis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 609-632.
Frith, E., Kane, M.J., Welhaf, M.S., Christensen, A.P., Silvia, P.J., Seli, P., & Beaty, R.E. (2021). Keeping creativity under control: Contributions of attention control and fluid intelligence to divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 33, 138-157.
Coifman, K.G., Kane, M.J., Bishop, M., Matt, L.M., Nylocks, K.M., & Aurora, P. (2021). Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity? Emotion, 21, 297-314.
Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A., Gazzia, N.C., Perkins, J.B., Silvia, P.J., Meier, M.E., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2020). An exploratory analysis of individual differences in mind wandering content and consistency. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 7, 103-125.
Welhaf, M.S., Smeekens, B.A. Meier, M.E., Silvia, P.J., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2020). The worst performance rule, or the not-best performance rule? Latent-variable analyses of working memory capacity, mind-wandering propensity, and reaction time. Journal of Intelligence, 8, 25. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/8/2/25
Baker, L.R., Kane, M.J., & Russell, V.M. (2020). Romantic partners' working memory capacity facilitates relationship problem resolution through recollection of problem-relevant information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149,580-584.
2015-2019
Wahlheim, C.N., Alexander, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2019). Interpolated retrieval effects on list isolation: Individual differences in working memory capacity. Memory & Cognition, 47, 619-642.
Beatty, I.D., Sedberry, S.J., Gerace, W.J., Strickhouser, J.E., Elobeid, M., & Kane, M.J. (2019). Improving STEM self-efficacy with a scalable classroom intervention targeting growth mindset and success attribution. 2019 PERC Proceedings. DOI: 10.1119/perc.2019.pr.Beatty
Venables, N.C., Foell, J., Yancey, J.R., Kane, M.J., Engle, R.W., & Patrick, C.J. (2018). Quantifying inhibitory control as externalizing proneness: A cross-domain model. Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 561-580.
Maillet, D., Beaty, R.E., Jordano, M.L., Touron, D.R., Adnan, A., Silvia, P.J., Kwapil, T.R., Turner, G.R., Spreng, R.N., & Kane, M.J. (2018). Age-related differences in mind-wandering in daily life. Psychology & Aging, 33, 643-653.
Seli, P., Kane, M.J., Smallwood, J., Schacter, D.L., Maillet, D., Schooler, J.W., & Smilek, D. (2018). Mind-wandering as a natural kind: A family-resemblances view. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 479-490.
Beaty, R.E., Kenett, Y.N., Christensen, A.P., Rosenberg, M.D., Benedek, M., Chen, Q., Fink, A., Qiu, J., Kwapil, T.R., Kane, M.J., & Silvia, P.J. (2018). Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1087-1092.
Meier, M.E., Smeekens, B. A., Silvia, P.J., Kwapil, T.R., & Kane, M.J. (2018). Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: A microanalytic-macroanalytic investigation of individual differences in goal activation and maintenance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 68-84.
Kane, M.J., Smeekens, B.A., von Bastian, C.C., Lurquin, J.H., Carruth, N.P., Miyake, A. (2017). A combined experimental and individual-differences investigation into mind wandering during a video lecture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1649-1674.
Kane, M.J, Gross, G.M., Chun, C.A., Smeekens, B.S., Meier, M.E., Silvia, P.J., & Kwapil, T.R.. (2017). For whom the mind wanders, and when, varies across laboratory and daily-life settings. Psychological Science, 28, 1271-1289.
Rummel, J., Smeekens, B.A., & Kane, M.J. (2017). Dealing with prospective memory demands while performing an ongoing task: Shared processing, increased on-task focus, or both? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 1047-1062.
Redick, T.S., Unsworth, N., Kane, M.J., & Hambrick, D.Z. (2017). Don't shoot the messenger: Still no evidence that video-game experience is related to cognitive abilities--A reply to Green et al. (2017). Psychological Science, 28, 683-686.
Kane, M.J., Meier, M.E., Smeekens, B.A., Gross, G.M., Chun, C. A., Silvia, P.J., & Kwapil, T.R. (2016). Individual differences in the executive control of attention, memory, and thought, and their associations with schizotypy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1017-1048.
Redick, T.S., Shipstead, Z., Meier, M.E., Montroy, J.J., Hicks, K.L., Kane, M.J., Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R.W. (2016). Cognitive predictors of a common multitasking ability: Contributions from working memory, attention control, and fluid intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1473-1492.
Smeekens, B.A., & Kane, M.J. (2016). Working memory capacity, mind wandering, and creative cognition: An individual-differences investigation into the benefits of controlled versus spontaneous thought. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10, 389-415.
Kane, M.J., & Conway, A.R.A. (2016). The invention of n-back: An extremely brief history. The Winnower, 3:e146722.26397, https://dx.doi.org/10.15200/winn.146722.26397
Meier, M. E., & Kane, M.J. (2015). Carving executive control at its joints: Working memory capacity predicts stimulus-stimulus, but not stimulus-response, conflict. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1849-1872.
Frank, D.J., Nara, B., Zavagnin, M., Touron, D.R., & Kane, M.J. (2015). Validating older adults' reports of less mind-wandering: An examination of eye-movements and dispositional influences. Psychology and Aging, 30, 266-278.
Unsworth, N., Redick, T.S., McMillan, B.D., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2015). Is playing videogames related to cognitive abilities? Psychological Science, 26, 759-774.
2010-2014
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2013). Dispatching the wandering mind? Toward a laboratory method for cuing "spontaneous" off-task thought. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:570. doi: 0.3389/fpsyg.2013.00570
Meier, M.E., & Kane, M.J. (2013). Working memory capacity and Stroop interference: Global versus local indices of executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 748-759.
Redick, T.S., Shipstead, Z., Harrison, T.L., Hicks, K.L., Fried, D.E., Hambrick, D.Z., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2013). No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training: A randomized, placebo-controlled study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 359-379.
McVay, J., Unsworth, N., McMillan, B. D., & Kane, M.J. (2013). Working memory does not always support future-oriented mind wandering. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (special section on Mind Wandering), 67, 41-50.
McVay, J., Meier, M.E., Touron, D.R., & Kane, M.J. (2013). Aging ebbs the flow of thought: Adult age differences in mind wandering, executive control, and self-evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 142, 136-147.
Beaty, R.E., Smeekens, B.A., Silvia, P.J., Hodges, D.A., & Kane, M.J. (2013). A first look at the role of domain-general cognitive and creative abilities in jazz improvisation. Psychomusicology, 23, 262-268.
Kane, M.J. & McVay, J.C. (2012). What mind-wandering reveals about executive-control abilities and failures. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 348-354.
Redick, T.S., Broadway, J.M., Meier, M.E., Kuriakose, P.S., Unsworth, N., Kane, M.J., & Engle, R.W. (2012). Measuring working memory capacity with automated complex span tasks. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 28, 164-171.
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2012). Drifting from slow to "D'oh!" Working memory capacity and mind wandering predict extreme reaction times and executive-control errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 525-549.
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2012). Why does working memory capacity predict variation in reading comprehension? On the influence of mind wandering and executive attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 302-320.
Bailey, H., Dunlosky, J., & Kane, M.J. (2011). Contribution of strategy use to performance on complex and simple span tasks. Memory & Cognition, 39, 447-461.
Kane, M.J. (2011). Describing, debating, and discovering inner experience: Review of Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel (2007), 'Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18, 150-164.
Kane, M.J. (2010). Can people's minds be changed? How can we know? Skeptic, 16, 28-31.
Marcovitch, S., Boseovski, J.J., Knapp, R.J., & Kane, M.J. (2010). Goal neglect and working memory capacity in 4- to 6-year-old children. Child Development, 81, 1687-1695.
Kane, M.J., Core, T.J., & Hunt, R.R. (2010). Bias versus bias: Harnessing hindsight to reveal paranormal belief change, beyond demand characteristics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2010). Does mind wandering reflect executive function or executive failure? Comment on Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008). Psychological Bulletin.
2005-2009
McVay, J.C., Kane, M.J., & Kwapil, T.R. (2009). Tracking the train of thought from the laboratory into everyday life: An experience-sampling study of mind-wandering in controlled and ecological contexts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 857-863.
Poole, B.J., & Kane, M.J. (2009). Working memory capacity predicts the executive control of visual search among distractors: The influence of sustained and selective attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1430-1454.
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2009). 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, 35, 196-204.
Conway, A.R.A., Moore, A.B., & Kane, M.J. (2009). Recent trends in the cognitive neuroscience of working memory [Book review of The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory]. Cortex, 45, 262-268.
Bailey, H., Dunlosky, J., & Kane, M.J. (2008). Why does working memory capacity predict complex cognition? Testing the strategy-affordance hypothesis. Memory & Cognition, 36, 1383-1390.
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.
2000-2004
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.
1994-1999
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
Meier, M.E., & Kane, M.J. (2017). Attentional control and working memory capacity. In T. Egner (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control (pp. 50-63). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
McVay, J.C., & Kane, M.J. (2010). Adrift in the stream of thought: The effects of mind wandering on executive control and working memory capacity. In A. Gruszka, G. Matthews, & B. Szymura (Eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition (pp. 321-334). New York: Springer.
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.