Exploring the Central Executive

作者: Alan Baddeley

DOI: 10.1080/713755608

关键词: Baddeley's model of working memoryCognitive scienceStimulus (physiology)Unified systemThird linePsychologyShort-term memoryWorking memoryCognitionHomunculus

摘要: The central executive component of working memory is a poorly specified and very powerful system that could be criticized as little more than a homunculus. A research strategy is outlined that attempts to specify and analyse its component functions and is illustrated with four lines of research. The first concerns the study of the capacity to coordinate performance on two separate tasks. A second involves the capacity to switch retrieval strategies as reflected in random generation. The capacity to attend selectively to one stimulus and inhibit …

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