Abstract
Working memory comprises a central executive, responsible for reasoning, decision making, and coordinating the activities of two subsidiary systems. One of the subsystems, the articulatory loop, is responsible for retention of verbal material, while the other subsystem, the visuo-spatial scratch pad, is responsible for retention of visual or spatial information. A visual temporary memory system could be responsible for retaining the imaged pattern of numbers in specific locations in a matrix. In contrast, if the subject is genuinely required to retain a sequence of movements, rather than a static pattern, they would be more likely to rely on a spatial temporary memory system. This chapter reports the experiment that was designed to investigate this possibility. In this experiment, subjects were required to retain information from one of two kinds of visually presented displays, either color hues or the sequential order in which a series of squares was presented at different locations on the screen.
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