作者: Alan Baddeley
DOI: 10.1080/713755608
关键词: Baddeley's model of working memory 、 Cognitive science 、 Stimulus (physiology) 、 Unified system 、 Third line 、 Psychology 、 Short-term memory 、 Working memory 、 Cognition 、 Homunculus
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 …