According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the "central executive":
A)is in charge of controlling attention, integrating information, and initiating retrieval.
B)is involved in organizing information in a complex network.
C)is specialized for spatial and visual material.
D)is specialized for verbal material.

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The central executive is responsible for controlling attention, integrating information from different sources, and initiating retrieval. It is essentially the supervisory system in Baddeley's model, directing attention and allocating resources to the different subsystems (i.e., phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and episodic buffer). Thus, option A is the correct choice. Option B refers to the long-term memory network and not the central executive. Option C and D are incorrect because the visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop, respectively, are the subsystems specialized for processing visual and verbal information.

According to the Working Memory Model Developed by British Psychologist