The situation You are a baseball catcher or coach who needs to decide which pitch the pitcher should throw next. To make this decision, you must consider information about both the present situation and past experiences. In terms of the present situation you need to consider: who the batter is, the score, who and where the runners on base are, the number of outs, the locations of defensive players in the infield and outfield, the ball and strike count, and so on. In terms of past experiences you need to consider: the batter's batting history in similar situations, the opposing team's tendencies in this situation-especially if they
Working memory involvement. The working memory serves as a temporary work space to enable you to integrate the information about the present situation and past experiences so that you can select the best pitch for right now. After receiving your pitch choice, the pitcher will involve the working memory to retrieve from long-term memory the invariant characteristics of the type of pitch required, and then use the temporary work space to apply specific movement-related features to the pitch, such as speed and location. After the pitch is delivered, the information in working memory is deleted to provide space for mew information to allow the pitcher to respond to what the batter does, or to throw the next pitch you select.