Evie Vergauwe

Biographic Data

ID1661772
NAMEEvie Vergauwe
GIVEN NAMESEvie
FAMILY NAMEVergauwe
SIGNATUREVERGAUWE E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Geneva
ORCID0000-0002-7339-2370
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Refreshing boosts memory but does not protect it against interference

    Open AccessCaro Hautekiet, Evie Vergauwe et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

  • The consequences of strategic prioritization in working memory

    Open AccessEvie Vergauwe, Caro Hautekiet et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

    Within working memory, a subset of information can be strategically prioritized when considered highly relevant. This relevance may stem from objective task demands or more subjective factors, both of which can improve memory performance. We systematically compared three commonly used approaches to induce strategic prioritization in visual working memory (test-relevance cueing, rewarding, and refreshing) within a single paradigm to test whether t…

  • The cognitive load effect in working memory: Refreshing the empirical landscape, removing outdated explanations

    Open AccessNaomi Langerock, Klaus Oberauer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2025

    The cognitive load effect is not robustly observed in all working memory tasks. • Current accounts of the cognitive load effect cannot explain this task-dependence of the cognitive load effect. Maintaining information in working memory often competes with concurrent processing of other information. This is reflected in the cognitive load effect, referring to the observation that processing tasks with a higher cognitive load result in lower memory…

  • Do school-aged children spontaneously use refreshing as maintenance strategy in working memory? Testing the effects of free time and motivation

    Beatrice Valentini, Evie VergauweARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    Working memory is the system responsible for maintaining information that is no longer available. Given the long-term impact of working memory in people's lives, it is fundamental to understand which mechanisms underlie it and how these develop with age. A recently proposed mechanism to explain working memory development is attentional refreshing. Refreshing is an attention-based maintenance mechanism that improves the accessibility of mental rep…

  • To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply

    Open AccessBartlett C Jones, Lisa Debruine et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 4References: 48

    Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Open AccessHannah Moshontz, L Campbell et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2018

    Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution t…

  • Benchmarks provide common ground for model development: Reply to Logie (2018) and Vandierendonck (2018)

    Klaus Oberauer, Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2018

    We respond to the comments of Logie and Vandierendonck to our article proposing benchmark findings for evaluating theories and models of short-term and working memory. The response focuses on the two main points of criticism: (a) Logie and Vandierendonck argue that the scope of the set of benchmarks is too narrow. We explain why findings on how working memory is used in complex cognition, findings on executive functions, and findings from neurops…

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory

    Klaus Oberauer, Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2018Cited by: 3

    Any mature field of research in psychology-such as short-term/working memory-is characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to explain them all; theorists must satisfice with explaining a subset of findings. The aim of the present article is to make the choice of that subset less arbitrary and idiosyncratic than is current practice. We propose criteria for identifying benchmark findings that eve…

  • Short Term Memories, Theories of

    Open AccessEvie Vergauwe, Nelson CowanCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Working memory span development: A time-based resource-sharing model account

    Pierre Barrouillet, Nathalie Gavens et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2009Cited by: 10References: 2

    The time-based resource-sharing model (P. Barrouillet, S. Bernardin, & V. Camos, 2004) assumes that during complex working memory span tasks, attention is frequently and surreptitiously switched from processing to reactivate decaying memory traces before their complete loss. Three experiments involving children from 5 to 14 years of age investigated the role of this reactivation process in developmental differences in working memory spans. Though…