The Working Memory Model

The Structure 

Central Executive 

• Decisions delegate
• limited capacity

Phonological Loop

• Made up of articulatory loop & phonological store
  
• 'inner voice' (holds verbal information
• limited capacity
• Baddeley, Thomson & Buchanan, 1975

Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

• made up of an inner scribe & visual cache
  
• limited capacity
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