The phrase "auditory working" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in context.
You can use it when discussing cognitive processes related to auditory information, particularly in the context of memory or attention.
Example: "The study focused on auditory working memory and its impact on language comprehension."
Alternatives: "auditory short-term" or "auditory cognitive".
These latter assessments comprised digit span (indexing auditory working memory; Wechsler, 1987), visuospatial span (indexing non-verbal working memory; Wechsler, 1999), and a reaction time test.
To ensure that the observed correlations between auditory working memory and SIN performance (QuickSIN and HINT) were not an artifact of musicians' enhanced auditory working memory, we defined the relationships between these variables for the musician and non-musician group through separate analyses.
Auditory working memory and attention are driving components of child literacy [ 35, 36], and relationships between auditory working memory and attention and musical skill have already been established [ 33, 54].
This issue was explored in the present experiment by comparing visual working memory training with an active (auditory working memory training) control condition and a passive, no training control condition.
However, the same two patients also suffered from severe auditory working memory deficits and from symptoms comparable to auditory extinction, both sufficiently explaining the impairments in simultaneous auditory perception.
In the present study, older musicians also demonstrate enhanced auditory working memory and SIN perception.
Auditory working memory is an important component of language comprehension, even in the absence of background noise [70] [72].
Here we demonstrate that older musicians have greater auditory working memory capacity, which may contribute to their improved SIN perception.
A relationship between backward masking thresholds and auditory working memory was also observed (Fig. 3; r = −0.495, p = 0.002).
This suggests that these cognitive-perceptual relationships are not driven by the musician group's enhanced auditory working memory.
Specifically, musicians had enhanced speech-in-noise perception, auditory working memory and auditory temporal acuity (lower backward masking thresholds), compared to non-musicians.
