WORKING MEMORY

WORKING MEMORY

1. Basics

   • Limited capacity
     • Products of perception
       • vision
       • hearing
       • taste
       • smell
       • touch
   • Temporary nature
     • avoid irrelevant information
     • Updating moment to moment
     • Retention of relevant information

2. Visual appearance and location

   • Temporary memory
     • hold information about objects
       • where
       • what
     • Highly adaptive
       • recall location
         • not visible environment
     • describe appearance
       • familiar environments

3. Memory span, counting, and language acquisition

   • retention
     • verbal sequence activity
       • remember telephone number
       • repeating a foreign word
       • Count an object
   • mental arithmetic
     • Alan Baddeley
       • Articulatory suppression
         • dramatic effect on counting
     • Mentally repeating numbers
       • crucial for
         • counting task

4. Long-term working memory

   • Ericsson et al
   • access
     • Highly familiar stored knowledge
   • Efficient coding
   • Retrieval of information