Benchmark Project: Expert Online Survey Announcement

Expert members are invited to participate in an expert crowd-sourcing survey that seeks to establish benchmarks in working memory research. The Benchmark Project is led by Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) and seeks to identify theory-relevant benchmarks in working-memory research. To date, more than 27,000 articles have been published on short-term and working memory. The plethora of publications not only provides a huge knowledge based, but it also presents an obstacle to principled identification of the core phenomena that are essential for theorizing. In consequence, even though there has been a long tradition of computational modeling of working-memory, to date those efforts have had a relatively narrow and non-overlapping scope. The Benchmark Project intends to deliver a “state of the art” inventory of knowledge on working memory that can facilitate the development of future theories. To ensure that the benchmarks represent the opinion of the field as a whole, the survey below contains a list of proposed benchmarks and expert members of the Society are invited to contribute to this crowd-sourcing effort. If you wish to contribute to this effort, please visit the survey.