{"pk":25669,"title":"The SymbolicWorking Memory:\nmemory accommodations for schematic processing of symbolic information","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an evolutionarily plausible description of of\na specialized working memory system involved in information\nmanagement for high-order cognitive tasks through its capability\nfor controlled maintenance and schematic access to symbolic representations.\nAlong a volatile serially accessible symbolic storage\nthat serves a basic maintenance function the system utilizes\nother accessory volatile memory systems along long-term memory\n(LTM) and learning systems for execution of schematic access\nto its content. Accessory systems can help encode the episodic\ninformation including the current state of the task and more importantly\nprovide a means for address-based access to the content\nof symbolic storage. LTM and learning systems help map the current\nstate of the task onto execution programs and thus help render\nschematic access and process of the retained symbolic information.\nImplications of this feature of the model are examined for\nthe case if concurrent-counting task.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Symbolic Working Memory; Volatile Memory; State\nRegistry System; Working Memory; Selective Access"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rn9h7b1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nader","middle_name":"","last_name":"Noori","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25669/galley/15293/download/"}]}