Facts about Central Executive

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   Baddeley originally modeled the central executive on the supervisory attentional system proposed by Norman and Shallice to explain voluntary control of behavior.

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   Damage to the prefrontal cortex is associated with impairments in central executive functioning, such as difficulties with planning, inhibition, and task-switching.

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   In Baddeley's working memory model, the central executive is considered the most important but least understood component, responsible for dividing and switching attention.

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   Alan Baddeley later proposed that the central executive's functioning is closely linked to the concept of executive functions associated with the frontal lobes of the brain.

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   The central executive is described in Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model as an attentional control system that coordinates the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.

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