STRENGTHS

• WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS OF THE WMM?

  research support
• WHAT RESEARCH SUPPORT DOES THE WMM HAVE?

  • Baddeley's dual task study
  • Shallice and Warrington, study of KF
• WHAT DID THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE TO DO IN BADDELEY'S DUAL TASK STUDY?

  track a moving spot of light whilst completing a verbal task, then a visual task
• WHAT TYPE OF TASK DID PARTICIPANTS STRUGGLE WITH MORE IN BADDELEY'S DUAL TASK STUDY?

  visual
• WHAT DID BADDELEY'S DUAL TASK STUDY PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR?

  there are two separate subsystems for processing visual and verbal information
• WHAT POPULATION DID BADDELEY'S DUAL TASK STUDY OCCUR IN?

  non-clinical
• WHAT DAMAGE DID KF HAVE TO HIS MEMORY?

  variable STM problems
• WHAT DID SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON DO WITH KF?

  presented him with digits verbally and visually
• WHEN WAS KF'S RECALL BETTER IN SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON'S STUDY?

  when digits were presented visually
• WHAT DOES SHALLICE AND WARRINGTON'S KF STUDY PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR?

  separate visual and acoustic memory stores