working memory model
- Created by: amy raffles
- Created on: 08-03-23 09:55
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- working memory model evaluation
- Reductionism
- Ignores memory working as a holistic unit.
- Simplifies a complex phenomenon.
- Isolates structures so they can be studied.
- Limitation of understanding the central executive.
- most important part of the system.
- largely untestable.
- model is not a full explanation.
- may not be unitary.
- Eslinger et al. Could understand reasoning and logic, couldnt make decisions.
- Support from KF.
- Shallice and Warrington
- verbal processing limited
- motorbike accident.
- damaged STM.
- visual processing intact
- two stores are seperate.
- Support from brain scans
- PET brain scans
- visual and verbal tasks
- different areas of the brain are activated
- motor cortex
- hippocampus
- temporal lobe
- cerebellum
- Reductionism
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