episodic buffer- 3rd subsystem

• added to the model in 2000 by Baddeley
• Baddeley updated it after a number of studies found results the model couldn’t explain:

  • how the LTM may be brought into our working memory
  • how sounds and visual information are integrated
• The EB is where visual, spatial and verbal information is integrated to the LTM
• It records events that are happening
• Has A limited capacity of about 4 chucks (Baddeley 2012)
• Links working memory to LTM and Wider cognitive processes that we have