the working memory intervenes when one pays attention to a Stimulus recorded by the sensory Mémoire. In the model of Atkinson and Shiffrin, the working memory is at the second stage, between the sensory memory and the long-term Mémoire. One can thus store it in the long-term memory using autorépétition of maintenance and/or integration.

The working memory or working memory is a system of active memory which deals at the same time of the treatment and the maintenance of short-term information. Its capacity is limited; the mnemic empan is of 7 + 2 items (mnemic Test of empan of Miller, 1956).

According to the ideal model of Baddeley and Hitch (1974), the working memory is divided into three parts: - central administrator - buckles phonological - visuo-space note-book.

The central administrator manages the two modules simultaneously: the verbal method (buckles phonological) and the visuo-space method (visuo-space note-book) The phonological loop makes it possible to maintain in memory three items. The central administrator, if it is not occupied with another task, can increase the holding capacity of information by mental repetition.

See too

• Memory
• modal Model of the memory
• long-term Memory
• short-term Memory
• long-term Working memory