Working memory model evaluation

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  • Working memory model evaluation
    • Support from KF
      • Shallice and Warrington
      • motorbike accident
      • damaged STM
      • visual processing intact
      • verbal processing limited
      • two stores are seperate
    • Support from brain scans
      • PET brain scans
      • different areas of the brain are activated
        • hippocampus
        • temporal lobe
        • cerebellum
        • motor cortex
      • visual and verbal tasks
    • Reductionism
      • simplifies a complex phenomenon
      • isolates structures so they can be studied
      • ignores memory working as a holistic unit
    • limitation of understanding of the central executive
      • most important part of the system
      • largely untestable
      • may not be unitary
        • Eslinger et al
        • case study of EVR
        • Could understand reasoning and logic, couldnt make decisions
      • model is not a full explanation

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