PSY 452 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sketchpad, Phineas Gage, Juggling
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Information can enter from perception or from memory: luck & vogel (1997) Central executive: the boss of working memory, duties: The sas must be: patients with damage to the frontal lobe are unable to suppress habitual responses. Frontal patients: phineas gage: the most famous frontal patient. 1: have trouble planning a task, penfield & evans (1935): patient could not plan a meal, patient was a chef and could explain how to make a meal. But couldn"t go through his own plan: shallice & burgess (1991): patients could not run errands, baddeley has people do random generation. Interim summary-working memory: working memory now viewed based on how it is used to accomplish tasks, baddeley"s model has been very successful. Key points: separate storage of visuosaptial and acoustic info, an executive at the head of the system, but there are other ideas. Note: you will only be responsible for the following section if time allows.
