This preprint presents a conceptual analysis of working memory and attention as overlapping theoretical domains in cognitive neuroscience. Using canonical definitions from established frameworks, the paper maps shared conceptual foundations, recurrent theoretical presuppositions, and zones of convergence without mechanistic unification. The work is non-empirical and non-normative, aiming to clarify the conceptual structure that stabilizes both literatures rather than proposing new models.
Buri Lux Vinícius (Thu,) studied this question.