The Central Executive

• When is the central executive used?


  When detailing with difficult mental tasks such as problem solving

  • These cognitively demanding tasks require lots of attention.
• Like the (older) concept of STM...........?

  the central executive is seen as having a limited capacity and potentially only being able to deal with one strand of information at a time

  Therefore, it processes information in all sensory forms, directs it ot the slave systems and collects responses.