Working Memory Model

Working Memory Model

1. Central Executive

   • Supervisory Component
   • Modality-free
   • Directs information to other 'slave' systems
   • Limited capacity
   • Overall control and determines and what information is attended to.

2. Visuo-spatial sketch pad

   • Inner eye
   • Temporary memory system for holding visual and/or spatial information (relationship between things0
   • Helps individuals to navigate and interact with their physical environment
   • Rehearsed and encoded through 'mental pictures'

3. Phonological Loop

   • Phonological Store
     • Inner ear
     • Deals with the perception of sounds
   • Articulatory Control System
     • Inner voice
     • Prevent the decay of verbal material by saying things over and over again in order to hold on to the verbal material.
     • Two seconds duration
   • Auditory store
   • Two subdivisions
   • Rehearsing sound-based information

4. Episodic Buffer

   • Added in 2000
   • General store to operate properly
   • Relates to both visual and acoustic information
   • Integrates information from all components

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