Event-Related Brain Potentials and Central Executive Function: Further Evidence for Baddeley's Model

Baddeley's influential model of working memory postulates a unitary central executive that allocates mental resources to several distinct short-term buffers. Subjects viewed individually presented single numerals and were required to maintain memory sets comprised of the most recently represented three stimuli. A clearly discernible visual event-related potentials (ERP) component emerged once the lengths of series of individual numbers exceeded …