Nelson Cowan
Nelson Cowan (born March 7, 1951 in Washington, DC ) is an American psychologist .
Cowan is mainly concerned with working memory and its development. In 1999 he published his working memory model " Embedded Processing Model of Working Memory ". He teaches as a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia .
Cowan received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1973 and his Masters from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977 . 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.
Web links
- Cowans curriculum vitae (PDF; 124 kB)
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| SURNAME | Cowan, Nelson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |