Nash Unsworth

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
133 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Nash Unsworth is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nash Unsworth has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 73 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nash Unsworth's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (88 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (47 papers) and Mind wandering and attention (42 papers). Nash Unsworth is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (88 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (47 papers) and Mind wandering and attention (42 papers). Nash Unsworth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Italy. Nash Unsworth's co-authors include Randall W. Engle, Matthew K. Robison, Gregory J. Spillers, Gene A. Brewer, Josef C. Schrock, Richard P. Heitz, Brittany D. McMillan, Thomas S. Redick, Ashley L. Miller and James M. Broadway and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, NeuroImage and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Nash Unsworth

131 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An automated version of the operation span task

2005 1.4k citations Nash Unsworth, Randall W. Engle et al. profile →
The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.

2007 963 citations Nash Unsworth, Randall W. Engle Psychological Review profile →
Working memory and fluid intelligence: Capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval

2014 379 citations Nash Unsworth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nash Unsworth United States	52	7.5k	4.9k	2.1k	1.0k	975	133	10.2k
Axel Cleeremans Belgium	50	7.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.3×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	246	10.3k
David Z. Hambrick United States	45	4.2k 0.6×	3.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	697 0.7×	116	9.3k
Moshe Naveh‐Benjamin United States	47	6.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	926 0.9×	568 0.6×	137	8.2k
Stephen Monsell United Kingdom	30	8.1k 1.1×	2.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	428 0.4×	54	10.3k
Andrew R. A. Conway United States	36	8.7k 1.2×	6.5k 1.3×	4.1k 1.9×	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	84	13.9k
Rose T. Zacks United States	45	7.9k 1.0×	3.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	924 0.9×	72	11.3k
Priti Shah United States	35	3.7k 0.5×	3.6k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	860 0.9×	962 1.0×	90	8.9k
Edward Awh United States	52	12.8k 1.7×	2.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	372 0.4×	115	14.3k
Edward K. Vogel United States	54	13.7k 1.8×	3.4k 0.7×	973 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	438 0.4×	117	15.3k
Robert H. Logie United Kingdom	60	7.7k 1.0×	4.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	251	13.1k

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Unsworth, Nash. (2024). Variation in general retrieval ability in semantic and autobiographical fluency tasks. Intelligence. 105. 101837–101837. 2 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash, Matthew K. Robison, & Ashley L. Miller. (2024). Mobilizing effort to reduce lapses of sustained attention: examining the effects of content-free cues, feedback, and points. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 25(3). 631–649. 5 indexed citations

Robison, Matthew K., et al.. (2023). Effects of goal-setting on sustained attention and attention lapses. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 86(5). 1594–1608. 10 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash & Ashley L. Miller. (2023). Pupillary correlates of preparatory control in the Stroop task. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 85(7). 2277–2295. 2 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash, Ashley L. Miller, & Matthew K. Robison. (2022). Oculometric indicators of individual differences in preparatory control during the antisaccade task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 49(2). 159–176. 6 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash, Matthew K. Robison, & Ashley L. Miller. (2021). On the relation between working memory capacity and the antisaccade task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 48(10). 1420–1447. 3 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash & Ashley L. Miller. (2021). Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 30(5). 391–400. 31 indexed citations

Unsworth, Nash, Ashley L. Miller, & Matthew K. Robison. (2020). Individual differences in lapses of sustained attention: Ocolumetric indicators of intrinsic alertness.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 46(6). 569–592. 23 indexed citations

Miller, Ashley L. & Nash Unsworth. (2019). Variation in attention at encoding: Insights from pupillometry and eye gaze fixations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 46(12). 2277–2294. 27 indexed citations

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Miller, Ashley L. & Nash Unsworth. (2018). Individual differences in working memory capacity and search efficiency. Memory & Cognition. 46(7). 1149–1163. 9 indexed citations

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Robison, Matthew K., Ashley L. Miller, & Nash Unsworth. (2018). Individual differences in working memory capacity and filtering.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 44(7). 1038–1053. 13 indexed citations

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Robison, Matthew K. & Nash Unsworth. (2017). Cognitive and contextual correlates of spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 44(1). 85–98. 86 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Nash & Matthew K. Robison. (2017). Tracking working memory maintenance with pupillometry. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 80(2). 461–484. 33 indexed citations

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McVay, Jennifer C., Nash Unsworth, Brittany D. McMillan, & Michael J. Kane. (2013). Working memory capacity does not always support future-oriented mind-wandering.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 67(1). 41–50. 25 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Nash, Gene A. Brewer, & Gregory J. Spillers. (2013). Focusing the search: Proactive and retroactive interference and the dynamics of free recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 39(6). 1742–1756. 23 indexed citations

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Redick, Thomas S., Nash Unsworth, Andrew Kelly, & Randall W. Engle. (2012). Faster, smarter? Working memory capacity and perceptual speed in relation to fluid intelligence. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 24(7). 844–854. 54 indexed citations

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Brewer, Gene A., Jasper Knight, Richard L. Marsh, & Nash Unsworth. (2010). Individual differences in event-based prospective memory: Evidence for multiple processes supporting cue detection. Memory & Cognition. 38(3). 304–311. 81 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Nash & Gene A. Brewer. (2009). Examining the relationships among item recognition, source recognition, and recall from an individual differences perspective.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 35(6). 1578–1585. 31 indexed citations

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Gibson, Bradley S., et al.. (2009). Application of the Dual-Component Model of Working Memory to ADHD. Child Neuropsychology. 16(1). 60–79. 23 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Nash & Randall W. Engle. (2007). The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory.. Psychological Review. 114(1). 104–132. 963 indexed citations breakdown →

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