For this review, I chose an article entitled, Working memory load and distraction: dissociable effects of visual maintenance and cognitive control authored by Nikos Konstantinou, Eleanor Beal, Jean-Remi King and Nilli Lavie. The article was published on the Journal of Attention, Perception and Psychophysics (2014) and was available online on 2 August 2014 at Springerlink. I was able to locate the article by typing the keyword: ‘psychophysics’ on the ISI list of journals (Thomson-Reuters), and then searched for the open-access articles published by typing the ISSN number of the journal. After browsing through some of the contents, I chose the article entitled above because it is related to my current field of interest, cognitive science – which is also considered to be a vital discipline associated with psychology especially in terms of assessment and research.

The study aimed to investigate the role of location in visual working memory. The experiments were divided into three distinctive styles wherein qualities associated with the variable of spatial location namely; shared location and non-spatial feature (e.g. color) were manipulated in order to find their role in visual working memory (WM).

The study aimed to describe the personal profiles of male minor sexual offenders and sought to find the relationship between their personality patterns and risk factors. Although heterogeneity was found in personal profiles, and some participants exhibited aspects of psychopathology in personality patterns, majority scored low in the dimensions of personality psychopathology as measured by the Personality Inventory for Children, 2nd Edition, and half scored low and high respectively, according to the risk level for sexual re-offending as measured by the Sex Offender Dangerousness Evaluation. The study found a relationship between the personality patterns and risk factors. Implications in psychology, rehabilitation, and recommendations for future research are discussed.