Working memory model

• Deals with everything your are thinking at one time

  Focuses on short term memory
• Central executive 


  Main processor

  Directs attention

  Allocates tasks to slave stores
• visuospatial sketch pad 


  plans visual takes

  uses inner eye

  visual form and colour
• episodic buffer 


  extra storage system

  keeps time sequences

  sends info to long term memory
• phonological loop


  loops words like an inner voice

  holds and processes sounds in inner ear