Re: another question on working memory

[Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Flaithrí Neff wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> The phonological loop in the Baddeley and Hitch model of working  
> memory seems to be focused on speech based audio..... is there a  
> similar component in working memory for non-speech audio?
I believe Aimee Surprenant has done some work in this area.  If you go 
to her website http://www2.psych.purdue.edu/~aimee/pubs.html you can 
find links to some publications of hers on this.  I seem to recall one 
major issue was that of rehearsal, which is a major component of the 
phonological loop model.  It is not clear how rehearsal would be applied 
to non-speech sounds.

Brian Gygi
Acoustics Research Institute
Vienna, Austria