Working Memory
Can you remember a sequence of more than seven digits? Alan Baddeley created a theoretical construct in 1974 that describes the structures and processes in the brain that are used for temporarily storing and manipulating information.
The Central Executive controls our cognitive processes and channels information further. It’s our CEO. The Phonological Loop stores what we see by rehearsing it. Its limited nature makes short words easier to remember. The Visio-spatial Sketchpad keeps information about what we see. It helps us judge distance or imagine images. The Episodic Buffer is our generalist. It links across domains, creating ...
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