In an information processing model of cognition, the sensory register coordinates the other components, determining what information is useful in the short term and what information should be stored in long-term memory.

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In an information processing model of cognition, the sensory register's role is to receive sensory information from the environment and hold it very briefly. It is the attention process that determines what information moves on to short-term memory (or working memory) and what may eventually be encoded into long-term memory, not the sensory register itself.

In an Information Processing Model of Cognition, the Sensory Register