episodic buffer

• What is the episodic buffer?

  • provides a general storage facility, which combines information from the other stores (visual, spatial and verbal) rather than separate strands and also from long term memory

  • it temporarily stores this information and then integrates it in order to construct a mental episode of what is being experienced right now
• episodic buffer capacity


  limited, about 4 chunks
• episodic buffer coding


  modality free