Working memory model

• Who made the working memory model?

  Baddeley + Hitch (1974)
• Central executive

  Controller of sensory systems

  No storage capability

  Creates episodic experiences
• Visuo-spatial sketch pad

  Receives and processes visual info in STM

  Visuo-spatial - what+where in visual field
• Phonological store

  Deals with input/storage and processing of acoustic info

  Phono - sound
• Episodic buffer

  Integrates acoustic and visual info to create whole experience of consciousness