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The recent comments on this issue (from Deutsch, Demeny and others) are
compatible with Margaret Wilson's claim that ``the phonological loop''
is basically articulatory or motor. See her review article: `The case
for sensorimotor coding in working memory' in Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review 8 (2001), pp. 44-57. She concludes that ``only a
sensorimotor model can accommodate the broad range of effects that
characterize verbal working memory'' and points out that this supports
the general viewpoint of embodied cognition. So what Baddeley called
`phonological' is not at all what linguists would call phonological
(since they would expect that to mean something completely abstract and
devoid of sensory or motor content). So the prediction would have to be that the only way the ``phonological loop'' could encode music is if it could be stored as something one could SING! Bob Port Linguistics and Cognitive Science Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |