Auditory Memory
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Assessing Working Memory in Children: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children – Working Memory (CABC-WM)
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2017
Working memory predicts a significant amount of variance for a variety of cognitive tasks, including speaking, reading, and writing. However, few tools are available to assess working memory in children. We present an innovative, computer-based battery that comprehensively assesses different components of working memory in school-age children.
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Decoding Auditory Imagery with Multivoxel Pattern Analysis
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Imagine the sound of a bell ringing. What is happening in the brain when we conjure up a sound like this in the "mind's ear?" There is growing evidence that the brain uses the same mechanisms for imagination that it uses for perception.1 For example, when imagining visual images, the visual cortex becomes activated, and when imagining sounds, the auditory cortex is engaged. However, to what extent are...
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A Real-world What-Where-When Memory Test
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2017
The Real-World What-Where-When memory test is a novel episodic memory test, in which participants need to recall which objects have been hidden in which locations on which of two distinct occasions. It is easy to run and is sensitive to normal cognitive aging.
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In Ovo Electroporation in the Chicken Auditory Brainstem
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2017
Auditory brainstem neurons of avians and mammals are specialized for fast neural encoding, a fundamental process for normal hearing functions. These neurons arise from distinct precursors of embryonic hindbrain. We present techniques utilizing electroporation to express genes in the hindbrain of chicken embryos to study gene function during auditory development.
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Measuring the Auditory Brainstem Response in Mice
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2025
Source: Lee, D., et. al. Modified Experimental Conditions for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Mice and Assessment of Hearing Function and Outer Hair Cell Damage. J. Vis. Exp. (2023)This video demonstrates the measurement of auditory brainstem response (ABR) in a mouse. Electrodes are placed on the head, behind the ear, and near the tail of an anesthetized mouse. Acoustic stimuli at various intensities are delivered, and electric signals generated are recorded as waveforms.
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Auditory memory depends on coordination across processing stages rather than storage alone. Acoustic features are first encoded, sound patterns can then be maintained temporarily in working memory, and selected information may enter longer-term storage for later retrieval. This progression helps explain how a listener can act on immediate verbal instructions while also recognizing familiar speech, music, or environmental cues.
Attention helps select sound information for continued processing, while rehearsal strengthens its maintenance and later retrieval. In practical terms, focusing on spoken instructions and mentally repeating them can support access after the sound is no longer present. These processes are therefore important when examining why some auditory information is retained more successfully than other information.
Meaningful auditory material can be connected to language, music, or recognizable environmental events, giving memory tasks information that extends beyond isolated acoustic features. This makes auditory memory relevant to everyday communication and recognition. Studying different types of meaningful sound can reveal how memory supports understanding, learning, and responses to surrounding cues.
Behavioral assessment can include recall, recognition, and sequence reproduction tasks. Recall examines whether a person can retrieve previously heard information, recognition tests whether familiar material can be identified, and sequence reproduction examines whether the order of sounds or information can be reproduced. Using these task types provides complementary evidence about auditory memory performance.
Results from recall, recognition, and sequence reproduction tasks can show different aspects of auditory memory rather than a single overall ability. Comparing performance across these formats may clarify whether difficulty appears during retrieval, identification, or preservation of order. Such findings can contribute to cognitive assessment and help inform interventions when memory performance affects learning or communication.
Auditory memory supports the handling of spoken material, making it relevant to language development, reading, and classroom learning. Research can examine how well people retain verbal information or reproduce sequences that resemble instructional material. These findings help psychologists study the cognitive processes underlying communication and learning, including situations in which auditory information must be retained for later use.
Psychologists examine auditory memory across aging and neurological conditions because differences in performance can provide information about cognitive functioning. Recall, recognition, and sequence reproduction tasks offer structured ways to observe these differences. The resulting patterns can support cognitive assessment and may guide intervention, while also connecting auditory memory research to broader questions about changes in communication and learning.