Baddeley (2012)

Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies

Annual Review of Psychology, 63(1), 1-29

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Abstract

I present an account of the origins and development of the multicomponent approach to working memory, making a distinction between the overall theoretical framework, which has remained relatively stable, and the attempts to build more specific models within this framework. I follow this with a brief discussion of alternative models and their relationship to the framework. I conclude with speculations on further developments and a comment on the value of attempting to apply models and theories beyond the laboratory studies on which they are typically based.

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Baddeley, A. (2012). Working memory: Theories, models, and controversies. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100422

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Working memory is a limited-capacity system that holds information briefly and works on it (updating, reordering, combining), described in the multicomponent model as a set of storage subsystems coordinated by attentional control