Working memory model

• The working memory model, proposed by Atkinson and Shriffrin is a model of how our memory operates.
• Central executive: It's like the brain's CEO, managing tasks and attention. It decides what to focus on and helps switch between different tasks.
• Phonological loop is a store for verbal information.

  ->Phonological store: stores acoustic information

  ->Articulatory control system: allows for maintenance rehearsal
• Visuospatial sketchpad stores visual and spatial information.

  ->Inner scribe: spatial navigation

  ->Visual cache: stores visual information
• Episodic buffers binds and integrates information from all the components and passes it to long-term memory.
• The central executive controls attention an directs information to the two slave systems.
• W.M.M

  Limitation)Lack of clarity of the central executive

  Strength)Dual task studies

  ->Performing a task using the same slave system = hinderance.

  ->Different slave systems = no hinderance.

  Strength)KF couldn't recall auditory info but could recall visual info

  ->Proves STM is both auditory + visual store of info.