Subject: Re: working memory and melody From: Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:58:00 +0200Robert Port wrote: > 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! > So then to rehearse environmental sounds, would one have to imitate a glass breaking or a car starting? I could not even begin to imitate some of the sounds that I work with. Brian Gygi Acoustics Research Institute Vienna Austria