WMM research AO3

Question 1

Who conducted the Dual task study?

Answer 1

Baddley

Question 2

Dual task study

Answer 2

Asked participants to perform 2 visual tasks
Tracking moving lights at the same time as describing the angles of the letter F
Or a visual and verbal tasks

Question 3

Findings of the dual task study

Answer 3

Performance was better when the tasks were not using the same processing
Suggests VSS and PL exist as separate study

Question 4

Shallice and Warrington study

Answer 4

KF with a clinical brain injury
Had selective impairment to his verbal STM
visual functioning of his STM was not affected
Suggests the PL and VSS subsystems are seperate

Question 5

Prahakaran

Answer 5

Uses FMRI scans to study participants
Participants completed tasks with equal amounts of spatial and verbal information
Condition A- spatial and verbal info was seperate
Condition B- integrated

Question 6

Pabkakaran findings

Answer 6

More activation in the pre-frontal cortex when info was integrated
More activation in posterior brain regions when info was not integrated
Suggests EB exists in the prefrontal cortex