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.
Answer Wiki. From a high level, cognitive point of view, the brain clearly processes information in parallel. Take for instance sensory perception: under normal circumstances your brain is processing up to five (possibly more!) Input streams at once. If you mean strictly in terms of conscious thought, the answer is more ambiguous due to poor definitions of what conscious thought is.