“…However, there is debate surrounding the underlying cognitive processes responsible for achieving interference control Fawcett & Taylor, 2008, 2010Festini & Reuter-Lorenz, 2017;Hasher, Lustig, & Zacks, 2007;Kane & Engle, 2003). Recently, Ecker and colleagues (Chang, Ecker, & Page, 2017;Oberauer, Lewandowsky, Farrell, Jarrold, & Greaves, 2012;Oberauer & Lewandowsky, 2016) proposed that there is an active, item-wise removal process that facilitates both maintenance and updating of WM. With respect to maintenance, removing irrelevant information serves to minimize interference and effectively increases WM capacity (Oberauer et al, 2012;Oberauer & Lewandowsky, 2016).…”