Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

We provide a new computational model of working memory inthe complex span task implemented in the ARCADIA cogni-tive framework. While there exist implementations of workingmemory successful enough to account for many of the bench-mark findings in the working memory literature, we demon-strate that further progress requires the integration of thesemodels with a rich conception of attention. ARCADIA pro-vides this intersection, allowing for precise control of the focusof attention on a time scale fine enough to begin to disentan-gle the overlapping effects of interference, temporal decay, andattentional refreshing.