Day 41 of 150 Spatial Difficulty 5/10
The sketchpad splits into a visual cache and inner scribe
Quick answer
The sketchpad splits into a visual cache and inner scribe. Today's question (Visuospatial working memory) asks about a finding from Logie, R. H. in 1995. The correct option is A visual cache (form/colour) and an inner scribe (movement/sequence) — full explanation, primary source, and glossary cross-links below.
Today's question
Robert Logie (1995) extended Baddeley's model by splitting the visuospatial sketchpad into two subsystems:
Reveal the answer and explanation
Correct: C — A visual cache (form/colour) and an inner scribe (movement/sequence)
Logie's two-component model proposes that the visual cache passively holds static visual information (what something looks like) while the inner scribe actively rehearses spatial sequences and supports planning of movement. Behavioural evidence shows that dynamic spatial-sequence interference selectively disrupts inner-scribe tasks, while static visual interference disrupts cache-loaded tasks. Neuropsychological dissociations and fMRI studies have replicated the visual/spatial split, mapping cache-like activity to ventral and scribe-like activity to dorsal streams.
About the source
Logie, R. H. (1995). Visuo-Spatial Working Memory. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates / Psychology Press.
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