ABSTRACT
The Work Space is a temporary repository of information that has been transmitted to it from either the Comprehender or (via the Executor) the Permanent Storage Unit. At any given time, it may contain both the input information that is used at various stages of processing and the output of these stages. Thus, it may contain (a) new stimulus information transmitted to it by the Comprehender and (b) previously formed knowledge representations drawn from Permanent Storage. It may also contain the output of various special-purpose processing units, including (c) more abstract encodings of information in terms of more general trait behavior and event concepts, (c) integrated representations of the information that have been formed with reference to a prototypic person or event, (e) subjective judgments of the person or event, and (f) episodic representations of overt responses to the stimulus (e.g., the representation of a judgment made along a category scale, etc.).
