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Backtracking? Rehearsing and replaying some old arguments about short-term memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Rosaleen A. McCarthy  and
E. K. Warrington
Rosaleen A. McCarthy
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3EB, Englandrm107@cam.ac.uk
E. K. Warrington
Affiliation:
Dementia Research Group, National Hospitals, London WC1N 3BG, Englande.warrington@dementia.ion.ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

We discuss the role of short-term auditory verbal storage within a working memory system. Data from single case studies of patients with left parietal lesions and selective impairment of memory span are discussed in order to address the question of the functions of short-term memory in language processing. The backup resource of auditory verbal short-term memory is required for those tasks that necessitate backtracking in order to integrate a verbal message within a developing central cognitive representation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 107 - 108
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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