Episodic buffer

• The episodic buffer integrates all types of data processed by the other stores (e.g auditory, visual, spatial) and so is described as the storage component of the central executive, as well as being crucial for linking STM to LTM
• Episodic buffer - The component of the WMM that brings together material from the other subsystems into a single memory rather than separate strands

  • It also provides a bridge between working memory and long-term memory
• Episodic buffer:

  • Temporary store for information, integrating the visual, spatial and verbal information processed by other stores and maintaining a sense of time sequencing
  • Basically recording events (episodes) that are happening
• Episodic buffer: Capacity

  • Limited capacity of about 4 chunks (Baddeley, 2012)
• Episodic buffer:

  • Seen as the storage component of the central executive and has a limited capacity of about four chunks
• Episodic buffer:

  • Links working memory to long-term memory and wider cognitive processes such as perception
• Episodic buffer: Baddeley (2000)
• Episodic buffer: Baddeley (2000)

  • Added a third slave system, as the model needs a general store to operate properly
  • EB introduced to explain how it is possible to temporarily store information combined together from CE, the PL, VSS and LTM