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Auditory Working Memory

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Abstract

This chapter reviews behavioral and neuroimaging findings on:

  1. 1.

    The comparison between verbal and tonal working memory (GlossaryTermWM )

  2. 2.

    The impact of musical training

  3. 3.

    The role of sound mimicry for auditory memory

  4. 4.

    The influence of long-term memory (GlossaryTermLTM ) on auditory WM performance, i. e., the effect of strategy use on auditory WM.

Whereas the core structures, namely Broca's area, the premotor cortex, and the inferior parietal lobule, show a substantial overlap, results in musicians suggest that there are also different subcomponents involved during verbal and tonal WM. If confirmed, these results indicate that musicians develop either independent tonal and phonological loops or unique processing strategies that allow novel interactive use of the WM systems. We furthermore present and discuss data that provide substantial support for the hypothesis that motor-related processes assist auditory WM, and as a result we propose a strong link between sound mimicry and auditory WM.

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Abbreviations

aKE:

affected KE family (FOXP2 mutation)

fMRI:

functional magnetic resonance imaging

IPL:

inferior parietal lobule

IPS:

intraparietal sulcus

LTM:

long-term memory

mid-DLPFC:

mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

SMA:

supplementary motor area

SMG:

supramarginal gyrus

Spt:

Sylvian-parietal-temporal

STM:

short-term memory

WM:

working memory

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Schulze, K., Koelsch, S., Williamson, V. (2018). Auditory Working Memory. In: Bader, R. (eds) Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_24

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