Schulze, K;
Tillmann, B;
(2013)
Working memory for pitch, timbre, and words.
Memory
, 21
(3)
377 - 395.
10.1080/09658211.2012.731070.
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Abstract
Aiming to further our understanding of fundamental mechanisms of auditory working memory (WM), the present study compared performance for three auditory materials (words, tones, timbres). In a forward recognition task (Experiment 1) participants indicated whether the order of the items in the second sequence was the same as in the first sequence. In a backward recognition task (Experiment 2) participants indicated whether the items of the second sequence were played in the correct backward order. In Experiment 3 participants performed an articulatory suppression task during the retention delay of the backward task. To investigate potential length effects the number of items per sequence was manipulated. Overall findings underline the benefit of a cross-material experimental approach and suggest that human auditory WM is not a unitary system. Whereas WM processes for timbres differed from those for tones and words, similarities and differences were observed for words and tones: Both types of stimuli appear to rely on rehearsal mechanisms, but might differ in the involved sensorimotor codes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Working memory for pitch, timbre, and words. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2012.731070 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.731070 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Language, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Music, Phonetics, Pitch Perception, Recognition (Psychology) |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1418662 |
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