Recollection and familiarity support auditory working memory in a manner analogous to visual working memory.

ABSTRACT: Prior work has suggested that visual working memory as measured in change detection tasks can be based on recollection, whereby participants consciously identify a specific feature of a stimulus that has changed, or on familiarity, whereby participants sense that a change has occurred but are unable to consciously access what has changed. Whether recollection and familiarity also contribute to auditory working memory is unclear. The present study aims to address that gap in knowledge by having participants make confidence judgments in change detection tests for speech sounds and pure tones. The results indicated that both recollection and familiarity contribute to auditory working memory across a variety of conditions, and showed that these two processes are functionally dissociable. With

SUBMITTER: Hawkins C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273585 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature