Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

• what does the visuo-spatial sketchpad do?


  receives input and codes it into visual or spatial imagery

  • it can process movements and actions as well as static visual images
• give an example ?

  the layout of the inside of a house

  • this occurs with reference to size, shape and colour
• what did baddely? suggest subdividing the v-s sketchpad into?

  • a visual cache VC
  • an inner scribe IS
• what does the visual cache do?

  stores visual information about form, colour and size
• what does the inner scribe do?


  handles spatial relationships and rehearses and transfers information in the visual cache to the central executive