visuospatial sketchpad

• What is the Visuo-spatial sketchpad (VSS)?

  - deals with temporary storage of visual and spatial information

  - essentially holds static images and manipulates them

  - sub-divided into a visual cache and inner scribe
• visual information example


  what things look like, such as the shape and size of letters in a word
• spatial information


  the relationship between objects
• VSS capacity


  3-4 items
• VSS coding


  relies on a visual code in terms of shape, size and colour
• visual cache


  stores information about visual items i.e. shape and colour
• inner scribe


  deals with spatial relations and records the arrangement of obiects in the visual field