{"id":8738,"date":"2019-05-22T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonological_loop\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:10:58","slug":"phonological_loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonological_loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonological loop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A component of the working memory model put forward by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (see Baddeley (1986), sometimes referred to as the articulatory loop. &nbsp;It acts as a relatively passive slave system for the temporary manipulation of storage of verbal information, under the direction of the central executive. &nbsp;The phonological store is depicted as an &#8216;inner ear&#8217; that preserves the temporal order speech sounds while an articulatory process acts to prevent them from decaying. &nbsp;The loop is thought to play a role in vocabulary acquisition during early childhood as well as serving to enable second language learning. &nbsp;The other components of the model are a central executive (the &#8216;boss&#8217; of the whole system deciding which information is attended to), visual-spatial sketchpad (also called the &#8216;inner ear&#8217; or &#8216;slave system&#8217;), and an articulatory control process (rehearsing information from the phonological store). &nbsp;Recent evaluations of the model have concluded that the central executive can be &#8216;gracefully retired&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17470218.2015.1136657?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17470218.2015.1136657?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logie, 2016<\/a>), &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"corsi_block-tapping_task\">Corsi block-tapping task<\/a>, <a href=\"memory\">Memory<\/a>, Sensory short-term and long-term memory, Working memory<\/p>\n<p>Baddeley, A. D. (1986).&nbsp;<span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Working memory<\/span>. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A component of the working memory model put forward by Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch (see Baddeley (1986), sometimes referred to as the articulatory loop. &nbsp;It acts as a relatively passive slave system for the temporary manipulation of storage of verbal information, under the direction of the central executive. &nbsp;The phonological store is depicted as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonological_loop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phonological loop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}