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The Phonological Loop

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

The phonological loop is the working memory component that holds and rehearses verbal and acoustic information.

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Silently repeating a shopping list uses the phonological loop while the visual sketchpad stays free.

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The loop is limited by how long the material takes to say. Longer words fill it faster than shorter ones.