ABSTRACT
In principle, the continuity model is coherent with an infinite number of distinctions/dissociations within WM. In fact, the more the task is sensitive the more it is possible to differentiate processes, even if they are very close and interconnected. The advantage of our view is that this does not imply an increase in the number of subcomponents and allows us to maintain the economic principle of a unique system in which more or less distant positions are activated from time to time. Within this view, the implications of a dissociation are different from a modular view (Fodor, 1983; Shallice, 1988). A so-called dissociated ability is assumed not to be completely independent of other cognitive abilities, but with an increasing level of relationship to abilities closer to it.
