{"id":9417,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/working_memory\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:39:43","slug":"working_memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/working_memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Working memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_LtpEXh-MPs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_LtpEXh-MPs?target=_self\">model of short-term memory<\/a>\u00a0 originally proposed by Alan D. Baddeley and Graham J. Hitch in 1974, conceived as a system for temporarily storing and manipulating information\u00a0in an accessible state,. \u00a0It is composed of two temporary storage or buffer systems (the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial scratchpad), responsible for verbal and visual information respectively, and the central executive, which is responsible for the selection, initiation, and termination of processing routines involving these stores. \u00a0This type of memory has been shown to be located in prefrontal cortex. \u00a0Its application to child development has been a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/310392131\/Baddeley-Hitch-Development-of-Working-Memory\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/310392131\/Baddeley-Hitch-Development-of-Working-Memory?target=_self\">topic\u00a0<\/a>of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"a-not-b_task-error\">A-not-B task\/error<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebellum_-functions-\">Cerebellum (functions)<\/a>, <a href=\"corsi_block-tapping_task\">Corsi block-tapping task<\/a>, <a href=\"dorsolateral_prefrontal_cortex_-dlpfc-\">Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)<\/a>, <a href=\"executive_function_-ef-\">Executive function (EF)<\/a>, <a href=\"memory\">Memory<\/a>, <a href=\"model\">Model<\/a>, <a href=\"phonological_loop\">Phonological loop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/Working memory\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Sensory, short-term (STM) and long-term (PTM) memory, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/Working memory\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Prefrontal cortex (PFC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baddeley, A.D., &amp; Hitch, G. (1974). Working memory. In G.H. Bower (Ed.), <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thepsychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory<\/span> (pp.\u00a047\u201389).New York, NY: Academic Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0model of short-term memory\u00a0 originally proposed by Alan D. Baddeley and Graham J. Hitch in 1974, conceived as a system for temporarily storing and manipulating information\u00a0in an accessible state,. \u00a0It is composed of two temporary storage or buffer systems (the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial scratchpad), responsible for verbal and visual information respectively, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/working_memory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working memory&#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-9417","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\/9417","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=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9504,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}