Subject: Re: another question on working memory From: Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:19:12 +0200Flaithrí 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