102| Working Memory – A Conversation With Dr. Alan Baddeley
Navigating Neuropsychology
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The Central Executive and the Frontal Lobes
Don Norman and Tim Chalice developed a model of working memory based on the frontal lobes. They found that people were able to bring together verbal and visual information to set up and imagine the scene, then answer verbal questions about it. The episodic buffer is a system that acts as a sort of blackboard but a very three dimensional, multi-dimensional blackboard where information can be manipulated by the executive. In some ways this left us with a model that had some similarities to Nelson Collins. We decided we need to put constraints on it and use it in order to ask and answer questions.
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