Journal article
Working memory for time intervals in auditory rhythmic sequences
Frontiers in psychology, Vol.5, pp.1329-1329
11/19/2014
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01329
PMCID: PMC4237036
PMID: 25477849
Abstract
The brain can hold information about multiple objects in working memory. It is not known, however, whether intervals of time can be stored in memory as distinct items. Here, we developed a novel paradigm to examine temporal memory where listeners were required to reproduce the duration of a single probed interval from a sequence of intervals. We demonstrate that memory performance significantly varies as a function of temporal structure (better memory in regular vs. irregular sequences), interval size (better memory for sub- vs. supra-second intervals), and memory load (poor memory for higher load). In contrast memory performance is invariant to attentional cueing. Our data represent the first systematic investigation of temporal memory in sequences that goes beyond previous work based on single intervals. The results support the emerging hypothesis that time intervals are allocated a working memory resource that varies with the amount of other temporal information in a sequence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Working memory for time intervals in auditory rhythmic sequences
- Creators
- Sundeep Teki - Newcastle UniversityTimothy D. Griffiths - Newcastle University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, Vol.5, pp.1329-1329
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01329
- PMID
- 25477849
- PMCID
- PMC4237036
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- eISSN
- 1664-1078
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- 091681; 091593 / Wellcome Trust; European Commission
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/19/2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984627230302771
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