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Below are the Evidence and Explain segments of the PEEL AO3 paragraphs for WMM.

1. Copy and paste into the appropriate boxes in your One Note’s essay plan sheet.
2. Add Links back to the Question at the end.

They asked participants to do two tasks that would utilise the visuospatial sketch pad at the same
time.

Tulving proposed that there are three different LTM components; semantic (facts), episodic (events)
and procedural (how to do things)… The MSM considers LTM’s processes by including maintenance
rehearsal whereas the…

A patient known as KF suffered brain damage in a motor cycle accident. KF had problems with verbal
information in his STM - his memory for visual information was largely unaffected.

Paulesu et al found whilst using a PET scan (positron emission tomography) that the Broca’s area
(left hemisphere) was active whilst… whereas the parietal lobe was more active in…

because it has a very limited capacity,

…which the working memory model does not state. …the WMM contains no such features,
therefore it is reductionist.

…undertaking speech-based memory tasks e.g., learning a list of words, …visuospatial tasks e.g.,
Corsi block test.

This shows that there are separate STM components for visual information (VSS) and verbal
information (phonological loop).
They found that participants were able to perform the tasks separately without any difficulty, but
when they did them together their performance at both was impaired because both tasks exceeded
the limited capacity in the VSS.

Therefore, its function must be inferred from the performance of verbal and visual tasks. The central
executive may never be scientifically falsified.