central executive

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    • has limited capacity
    • makes decisions about which issues deserve attention and which should be ignored and job allocation
    • Central Executive is the head of the model and pays attention to the information that we receive from our senses
    • the central executive controls the information and filters this before passing it to the subsystems
    • the subsystems include:
      • the visuo- spatial sketchpad
      • the phonological loop
      • the episodic buffer
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