Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0655 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Visuospatial Sketchpad
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The idea
The visuospatial sketchpad is the working memory component that holds and manipulates visual and spatial information.
In practice
Mentally rotating a shape to see whether it fits a gap in a shelf uses the sketchpad.
Where people slip
The two components have separate capacities. A verbal task and a spatial task interfere with each other far less than two of a kind.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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