Sentence examples for auditory memory capacity from inspiring English sources

These landmark studies have been used to argue for the independence of speech comprehension from auditory memory capacity, on the basis that if patients exist who have 'pure' auditory short-term memory difficulties in the presence of normal speech comprehension, then normal speech comprehension does not rely upon intact auditory memory.

As with young adult musicians, older adult musicians demonstrate increased auditory working memory capacity and increased auditory temporal acuity (as measured by backward masking), which may undergird the perception of speech in noise.

Here we demonstrate that older musicians have greater auditory working memory capacity, which may contribute to their improved SIN perception.

The addition of background noise reduces one's auditory working memory capacity [73] [74], resulting in the decreased ability to rehearse and recall a target speaker's utterance [22], further compromising the perception of a speech signal already degraded by noise.

We recently demonstrated improved auditory working memory capacity and SIN perception in young adult musicians as well as a link between performance on both tasks [17], adding to a growing body of research indicating the importance of auditory-related cognitive abilities for SIN perception [21].

Age, peripheral hearing performance (see also Supplementary material on-line), years in education and reverse digit span (as an index of both auditory working memory capacity and disease severity: Baddeley et al., 1991; Perry and Hodges, 1999) were included as additional covariates of no interest.

We wanted to control for the various cognitive components of digit span that are not specific to auditory short-term memory capacity such as: auditory perception of speech, central linguistic processing, speech output and executive control processing.

More specifically, patients with damage to the left superior temporal gyrus and sulcus lateral and posterior to primary auditory cortex may well have a deficit due to damaged auditory short-term memory capacity, specifically the ability to maintain multiple auditory lexical representations.

Analysis 2 was designed to identify neural structures that determine auditory short-term memory capacity.

Auditory short-term memory capacity can be measured by digit span.

We included these to control for processes involved in digit span but unrelated to auditory short-term memory capacity.