Welcome to the Attention & Working Memory Lab!

Our lab is mainly interested in the nature of individual differences on important cognitive abilities such as fluid intelligence, working memory capacity, and attention control.

On our website you can find all of our publications over the years, download the complex span tasks to use in your own research, and more...

Learn About the Research We do and Why it is Important


Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Ability to control attention: The secret sauce in the relationship between working knowledge and fluid intelligence.



2017 Psychonomic Society Keynote Address






Georgia Tech College of Science

Attention Control is a Key to Success




Brief History of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity



Interview with Randy


Invited interview with Randy at the 2019 meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research