These representations are maintained by subvocal rehearsal in a phonological loop which, when blocked, leads to impaired recall of information.
In the case of short-term memory maintenance, however, reactivation is mediated by an internal rehearsal process or sensorimotor loop (Fuster 1997; Baddeley 2003), rather than an external cue or stimulus.
I found their continued involvement in Brown's work and in her company, their dedication to something they loved, to be moving, and their presence in the rehearsal closed a kind of loop for me.
A television monitor outside the rehearsal hall seems to be in constant loop, playing the previous day's rehearsal.
As strains of ethereal guitar loops floated up from a rehearsal somewhere in his building, Mr. Cohen contemplated the film's release, still speaking modestly but with great feeling.
In this case, the articulatory suppression hampered the vocal rehearsal of information visually presented, causing the rate of correct responses to decline without the phonological loop aid.
The phonological loop is comprised of a storage unit, which retains phonological representations of language, and a subvocal rehearsal unit, which is a tool that aids in retention of novel phonological information [ 22].
Baddeley's influential model of short-term memory dedicates discrete components to each of these processes; the 'phonological short-term store' acting as a time-limited representational storage buffer, and the 'articulatory loop' acting to refresh or 'revivify' the representations in the store via a process of active rehearsal (Baddeley, 2003).
The loop system essentially comprises two parts: a storage component – possibly analogous to auditory sensory memory [5] – and a rehearsal component which updates and refreshes information encoded in the storage component.
