... model was based around a sensory buffer which was just a short term store then moves onto a selective buffer and then onto the long term memory or a limited capacity processor and tan finally onto the response processes. This was to be later on developed by Treisman's model. Treisman's model still retained much of the architecture of Broadbent's filter model, however he develop the idea that no information from stimuli was lost but that is was just attenuated and available for higher level processing. However both of these models seem to be too linear. Other ways are bottom up processing and top down processing. Bottom up processing is stimuli entering or short term memories and if it is not used or rehearsed it decays and if it is used it transfers to the long term memory. Top down processing is the way the brain processes information based on past experience, stereotyping ...

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