Thank you for your summary of WM points. It was very insightful and I appreciated seeing it broken into major points. Since your article focuses on WM, would you say that you accept the view of two-store memory model with regards to information coming in to a sensory register which moves into an active or working memory which then associates with long term memory until meaningfulness is achieved and the new information is transferred into long term memory? I find this memory model to be easily understood in its explanation of how learners encounter new information, decide whether to act upon it in working memory and encode the information by incorporating it into long-term memory.

Your inclusion of cognitive load theory was new information for me, so I took a look your blog entry on “What is Cognitive Load”. Here you state that “information in working memory lasts only around ten seconds”, but point nine of the current article you state that working memory is around 20 seconds. I was curious if this was a typographical error or if you are using differing sources or theories. As with any developing research, different theories state opposing opinions; i.e. Miller (1956) declares that working memory holds 7+ or -2 pieces of new information while, more recently , Cowan (2001) determines four chucks of information to be the limit. Is this the position that you have taken?

Thank you again for the wealth of information!