[senco-forum] working memory

Hi Aly,
Did you listen to the Radio 4 programme "The Making of Memory" tonight?
It did a good brief explanation of working memory, episodic memory,
semantic memory and procedural memory. It may be available to "listen
again" on the website if you missed it.
Best wishes,
Mary
P.S. I'm hoping that they may break down working memory a little more in
another episode - there is the visuo-spatial scratchpad and the
phonological loop, for example.

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"I  explain this to children as the supermarket conveyer belt. You put
the  
beans the bread the milk the soup.....oops the beans just fell off the  
front. You need to keep saying them in order to recall a list, out loud
if  
possible. With practice you can keep more stuff on the  conveyer."

I thought that was short term memory and sequential memory not working  
memory. Working memory is retrieving stored information and using it for

something...like giving a child a list of words then asking them to  use
those words in 
a story. 

You remember something until it is needed and once it is used - or not
used  
- after a while it is gone, either forgotten or transferred to the long
term  
memory if you think you will need it latwer, making room for something
else... 
 like a piece of work on a word processor, you type it in there then
either  
delete it or store it, clearing the page and making room for a clean
sheet  to 
use for another piece of work..

I may be wrong, please can someone clarify...

Best wishes,
Aly

Chair Auditory  Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm 
www.apduk.org

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