visuo- spatial sketchpad- 2nd sub-system

• Stores visual and/ or spatial information when required
• has a limited capacity, which according to Baddeley (2003) is about 3 or 4 objects
• Robert Logie (1995) subdivided the VSS into:

  • the visual cache
  • the inner scribe
• visual cache stores visual data
• the inner scribe records the arrangement of objects in the visual field