Temporary and longer term retention of acoustic information.

Full Abstract

Though many studies suggest that fine acoustic details fade from memory after 15 s or even less, everyday experience tells us that the voice of a person or a musical instrument can be recognized long after it was last heard. We wished to determine whether tones leave a lasting memory trace using an experimental model of implicit recognition and testing whether exact pitch information can be retrieved even after 30 s. Event-related brain potentials demonstrated the survival of an accurate representation of tone pitch in the auditory cortex. This result provides a link between short-duration buffering and permanent storage of acoustic information.

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Author information

Author/s: Winkler, István (I); Korzyukov, Oleg (O); Gumenyuk, Valentina (V); Cowan, Nelson (N); Linkenkaer-Hansen, Klaus (K); Ilmoniemi, d Risto J (RJ); Alho, Kimmo (K); Näätänen, Risto (R);

Affiliation: Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. winkler(-atsign-)cogpsyphy.hu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Clinical Trial; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychophysiology (Psychophysiology), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jul; vol 39 (issue 4) : pp 530-4

Dates: Created 2002/09/05; Completed 2002/10/01; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12212645, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Adult
Auditory Perception - physiology
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials, Auditory - physiology
Female

Female
Humans
Male
Memory - physiology
Memory, Short-Term - physiology

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