Auditory memory can be object based.

@article{citeulike:2892416, abstract = {Identifying how memories are organized remains a fundamental issue in psychology. Previous work has shown that visual short-term memory is organized according to the object of origin, with participants being better at retrieving multiple pieces of information from the same object than from different objects. However, it is not yet clear whether similar memory structures are employed for other modalities, such as audition. Under analogous conditions in the auditory domain, we found that short-term memories for sound can also be organized according to object, with a same-object advantage being demonstrated for the retrieval of information in an auditory scene defined by two complex sounds overlapping in both space and time. Our results provide support for the notion of an auditory object, in addition to the continued identification of similar processing constraints across visual and auditory domains. The identification of modality-independent organizational principles of memory, such as object-based coding, suggests possible mechanisms by which the human processing system remembers multimodal experiences.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. b.j.dyson@sussex.ac.uk}, author = {Dyson, B. J. and Ishfaq, F. }, citeulike-article-id = {2892416}, issn = {1069-9384}, journal = {Psychonomic bulletin \& review}, keywords = {auditory, kristina, memory}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {409--412}, posted-at = {2008-06-13 19:59:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Auditory memory can be object based.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488660}, volume = {15}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2892416 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2892416 TI - Auditory memory can be object based. JF - Psychonomic bulletin & review VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 409 EP - 412 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. b.j.dyson@sussex.ac.uk SN - 1069-9384 N2 - Identifying how memories are organized remains a fundamental issue in psychology. Previous work has shown that visual short-term memory is organized according to the object of origin, with participants being better at retrieving multiple pieces of information from the same object than from different objects. However, it is not yet clear whether similar memory structures are employed for other modalities, such as audition. Under analogous conditions in the auditory domain, we found that short-term memories for sound can also be organized according to object, with a same-object advantage being demonstrated for the retrieval of information in an auditory scene defined by two complex sounds overlapping in both space and time. Our results provide support for the notion of an auditory object, in addition to the continued identification of similar processing constraints across visual and auditory domains. The identification of modality-independent organizational principles of memory, such as object-based coding, suggests possible mechanisms by which the human processing system remembers multimodal experiences. KW - auditory KW - kristina KW - memory AU - Dyson, BJ AU - Ishfaq, F PY - 2008/04// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18488660 ER -