Working memory model evaluation
- Created by: ashbrook.niamh
- Created on: 27-02-20 19:43
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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
- Support from KF
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