ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is to provide evidence that this equilibrium results from the balance between loss and reconstruction of representations within working memory. The processing component of working memory was relegated to some unfathomable and largely unexplored separate structure, the central executive, and the bulk of research was devoted to understanding the nature and functioning of the slave systems. In these investigations, researchers showed some predilection for the phonological buffer compared with its visuospatial counterpart. Computational models helped in refining the predictions of concurrent models and detailing the mechanisms involved. The fact that performing at a fast pace very simple tasks such as reading digits has such dramatic effects on concurrent cognition suggests that these temporal constraints affect the keystone on which the equilibrium of the central cognitive system is based.
