Working Memory Model: Baddeley And Hitch

“So plastic is your brain that even if you were born with half of it, you would still be able to live a relatively normal life.”
The quote suggest that the brain is indeed able to adapt to carry out all necessary function with what it has, even if it’s only half of it. This means the brain is in essence able to change its structure to maximize what it has and accommodate all higher function as well as the basic. “…relatively normal…” suggest that despite its adaptation, those born with half a brain or underwent spherectomy as a child, are still somewhat disadvantaged from those who were born with a complete one. This idSea is further emphasized upon the information: “She did learn to walk and talk a little slower than normal babies do, and
Though Baddeley and Hitch themselves were not clear what the central executive is exactly but what is but what is definite is that it is responsible for monitoring and controlling the slave system which includes the visuo-spatial scratch(sketch) pad and the phonological loop. Simply put, the visuo-Spatial Sketchpad processes information through visual or spatial form. The phonological loop is concerned with spoken and written information and comes in two parts, phonological store (inner ear) and Articulatory control process (Inner voice). Phonological store deals with speech-based material for around 1.5 ± 0.5 seconds. “The phonological store is capable of storing material for a limited period of time.” Articulatory control process is responsible for enabling speech, which is crucial for rehearsals and storage of verbal information from the phonological store. This holds a crucial role in the process of consolidation. It also has a secondary function which is the translation of a visual stimuli into a phonological code such as the a phone digit. “suffers from a defect of the phonological store. This removes the normal advantage gained from using subvocal rehearsal…” All these passages have also strongly suggested that indeed memory is not merely stored as a block of information in simply one area of the brain but more likely to be from a complex system where many parts of the brain plays a role in the formation of memory with many networks interconnecting each part. [ \Giuseppe Vallar, Alan D. Baddeley, Fractionation of working memory: [Neuropsychological evidence for a phonological short-term store, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, Volume 23, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 151-161, ISSN 0022-5371,