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The Visuospatial Sketchpad
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The visuospatial sketchpad is the working memory component that holds and manipulates visual and spatial information.
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Mentally rotating a shape to see whether it fits a gap in a shelf uses the sketchpad.
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The two components have separate capacities. A verbal task and a spatial task interfere with each other far less than two of a kind.