STM

• WMM: Baddeley and Hitch found an explanation for the arrangement of STM
• central executive montiors incoming data
• phonological loop: deals with auditory information and preserves the order in which information arrives
• visuo-spatial sketchpad: stores visual and spatial information
• episodic buffer: temporary store for information
• limitation of WMM: central executive is most important but least understood
• strength of WMM: dual-task performance support
• MSM: describes how information flows through the memory system