wmm

• Central executive

  • Has supervisory functions and controls the slave systems
  • Determines how the brain’s resources are allocated to tasks
  • has limited capacity but can process info from any sensory modality 
• visual spatio sketchpad

  • is a temporary memory system with a limited capacity for holding visual and spatial information
  • The VSS helps people to navigate around and interact with their physical environment.
  • Information in the VSS is coded and rehearsed through the use of mental pictures.
• • Phonological loop temporary storage system with limited capacity for holding verbal info in a speech based form 
  • 2 parts...
  • phonological store- holds the words you hear like an inner ear 
  • articulatory process- which allows us to repeat the words in aloop 
• Episodic buffer

  • extra general storage system with limited capacity
  • The EB explains how it is possible to temporarily store information combined together from all different parts of wmm
• • The WMM suggests that STM is made up of the central executive, the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer