The interaction of modality condition and presentation rate in short-term contour recognition

Balch, William R.; Muscatelli, Dennis L.

doi:10.3758/bf03203027

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“…Note that when Balch and Muscattelli (1986) studied melodic and spatial contour judgments, using the same four modality conditions that we did, they found a visual rather than an auditory advantage. This is consistent with the view that vision is fundamentally spatial, whereas audition is temporal.…”

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Modality differences in short-term memory for rhythms

Collier

Logan

2000

Mem Cogn

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Prior research has established that performance in short-term memory tasks using auditory rhythmic stimuli is frequently superior to that in tasks usingvisual stimuli, In fiveexperiments, the reasons for this were explored further. In a same-different task, pairs of brief rhythms were presented in which each rhythm was visual or auditory, resulting in two same-modality conditions and two cross-modality conditions. Three different rates of presentation were used. The results supported the temporal advantage of the auditory modality in short-term memory, which was quite robust at the quickest presentation rates. This advantage tended to decay as the presentation rate was slowed down, consistent with the view that, with time, the temporal patterns were being recoded into a more generic form.

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confidence: 59%

Modality differences in short-term memory for rhythms

Collier

Logan

2000

Mem Cogn

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“…The domain recruitment hypothesis extends this concept to neural responses under higher cognitive demands. Several prior behavioral studies investigating short-term memory for spatial and/or temporal information presented in visual and/or auditory modalities have reported that the visual modality is superior for spatial STM and that the auditory modality is superior for temporal STM (e.g., Balch and Muscatelli, 1986; Glenberg et al, 1989; Collier and Logan, 2000; Guttman et al, 2005; McAuley and Henry, 2010). Cross-modal recoding (e.g., hearing visual rhythms) may occur when the information domain of the task is not “appropriate” to the native stimulus modality; however, debate remains as to whether such recoding is automatic and obligatory or controlled and strategic (Guttman et al, 2005; McAuley and Henry, 2010).…”

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Short-Term Memory for Space and Time Flexibly Recruit Complementary Sensory-Biased Frontal Lobe Attention Networks

Michalka

Kong

Rosen

et al. 2015

Neuron

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Summary The frontal lobes control wide-ranging cognitive functions; however, functional subdivisions of human frontal cortex are only coarsely mapped. Here, functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals two distinct visual-biased attention regions in lateral frontal cortex, superior precentral sulcus (sPCS) and inferior precentral sulcus (iPCS), anatomically interdigitated with two auditory-biased attention regions, transverse gyrus intersecting precentral sulcus (tgPCS) and caudal inferior frontal sulcus (cIFS). Intrinsic functional connectivity analysis demonstrates that sPCS and iPCS fall within a broad visual-attention network, while tgPCS and cIFS fall within a broad auditory-attention network. Interestingly, we observe that spatial and temporal short-term memory (STM), respectively, recruit visual and auditory attention networks in the frontal lobe, independent of sensory modality. These findings not only demonstrate that both sensory modality and information domain influence frontal lobe functional organization, they also demonstrate that spatial processing co-localizes with visual processing and that temporal processing co-localizes with auditory processing in lateral frontal cortex.

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“…Furthermore, contour is a privileged feature for processing and storing auditory information, not only with pitch variations, but also with loudness and brightness variations (Graves et al, 2019;McDermott et al, 2008). Some related observations have been made with visual stimuli, such as with vertical lines (Balch & Muscatelli, 1986) and stair plots (Prince et al, 2009). Beyond verbal, visuospatial, and tonal materials, only few studies have investigated memory for other categories of stimuli, through recognition tasks.…”

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Auditory and visual short-term memory: influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise

Talamini

Blain

Ginzburg

et al. 2021

Psychological Research

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Short-term memory has mostly been investigated with verbal or visuospatial stimuli and less so with other categories of stimuli. Moreover, the influence of sensory modality has been explored almost solely in the verbal domain. The present study compared visual and auditory short-term memory for different types of materials, aiming to understand whether sensory modality and material type can influence short-term memory performance. Furthermore, we aimed to assess if music expertise can modulate memory performance, as previous research has reported better auditory memory (and to some extent, visual memory), and better auditory contour recognition for musicians than non-musicians. To do so, we adapted the same recognition paradigm (delayed-matching to sample) across different types of stimuli. In each trial, participants (musicians and non-musicians) were presented with two sequences of events, separated by a silent delay, and had to indicate whether the two sequences were identical or different. The performance was compared for auditory and visual materials belonging to three different categories: (1) verbal (i.e., syllables); (2) nonverbal (i.e., that could not be easily denominated) with contour (based on loudness or luminance variations); and (3) nonverbal without contour (pink noise sequences or kanji letters sequences). Contour and no-contour conditions referred to whether the sequence can entail (or not) a contour (i.e., a pattern of up and down changes) based on non-pitch features. Results revealed a selective advantage of musicians for auditory no-contour stimuli and for contour stimuli (both visual and auditory), suggesting that musical expertise is associated with specific short-term memory advantages in domains close to the trained domain, also extending cross-modally when stimuli have contour information. Moreover, our results suggest a role of encoding strategies (i.e., how the material is represented mentally during the task) for short-term-memory performance.

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The interaction of modality condition and presentation rate in short-term contour recognition

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Modality differences in short-term memory for rhythms

Modality differences in short-term memory for rhythms

Short-Term Memory for Space and Time Flexibly Recruit Complementary Sensory-Biased Frontal Lobe Attention Networks

Auditory and visual short-term memory: influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise

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