Phonological loop

• Phonological loop: Coding

  • Acoustic - deals with auditory information (sound)
• Phonological loop - The component of the WMM that deals with sound

  • It's divided into the phonological store and the articulatory process
• Phonological loop:

  • Deals with auditory information (ie coding is acoustic)
  • Preserves the order in which the information arrives (eg whether words occured before or after each other)
• The phonological loop is subdivided into:

  • The phonological store, which stores the words you hear
  • The articulatory process, which allows maintenance rehearsal
• Phonological loop: Articulatory process

  • Allows maintenance rehearsal (repeating sounds or words in a 'loop' to keep them in working memory while they are needed)
  • The capacity of this 'loop' is believed to be two seconds worth of what you can say
• Phonological loop: Capacity

  • Limited capacity determined by the amount of information that can be spoken out loud in about 2 seconds
• Phonological loop: Phonological store

  • Stores words recently heard
• WMM: PHONOLOGICAL LOOP

  The phonological loop holds verbal information in a speech based form

  • Limited capacity, temporary storage system