The definition of maladroit is  awkward or showing a lack of skills. An example of a maladroit person is an employee who cannot accomplish the simplest tasks of the job. noun Maladroit is defined as a person with a lack of skills.
Even within Working Memory (the next step after Sensory Memory), the verbal/non-verbal information is processed separately. Verbal input is attended to and processed in your brain's phonological loop. Visual input is attended to and processed on your brain's visuospatial sketchpad. From these two different locations, the information is encoded (transferred) to long-term memory.
A set of structures in the centre, known as the basal ganglia, are responsible for sending messages between the separate areas of the brain. The lobes are responsible for controlling; problem solving and judgement (frontal lobes), sensation and body position (parietal lobes), memory and hearing (temporal lobes), and the processing of visual stimuli (occipital lobes).