How conscious experience and working memory interact
Trends in Cognitive SciencesPublished 1 April 2003
Bernard J. Baars, Stan Franklin
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The IDA model provides a fine-grained analysis of two classical working-memory tasks, verbal rehearsal and the utilization of a visual image, and new light is shed on the interactions between conscious and unconscious aspects of working memory.
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Active components of classical working memory are conscious, but traditional theory does not account for this fact. Global Workspace theory suggests that consciousness is needed to recruit unconscious specialized networks that carry out detailed working memory functions. The IDA model provides a fine-grained analysis of this process, specifically of two classical working-memory tasks, verbal rehearsal and the utilization of a visual image. In the process, new light is shed on the interactions between conscious and unconscious aspects of working memory.
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