Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores

<p><strong>Objective:</strong> Memory is the faculty responsible for encoding, storing and retrieving information, comprising several sub-systems such as sensory memory (SM) and working memory (WM). Some previous studies exclusively using clinical population revealed associations b...

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Autors principals: Bonetti, L, Haumann, NT, Brattico, E, Kliuchko, M, Vuust, P, Särkämö, T, Näätänen, R
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Elsevier 2018
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author Bonetti, L
Haumann, NT
Brattico, E
Kliuchko, M
Vuust, P
Särkämö, T
Näätänen, R
author_facet Bonetti, L
Haumann, NT
Brattico, E
Kliuchko, M
Vuust, P
Särkämö, T
Näätänen, R
author_sort Bonetti, L
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description <p><strong>Objective:</strong> Memory is the faculty responsible for encoding, storing and retrieving information, comprising several sub-systems such as sensory memory (SM) and working memory (WM). Some previous studies exclusively using clinical population revealed associations between these two memory systems. Here we aimed at investigating the relation between modality-general WM performance and auditory SM formation indexed by magnetic mismatch negativity (MMN) responses in a healthy population of young adults.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we recorded MMN amplitudes to changes related to six acoustic features (pitch, timbre, location, intensity, slide, and rhythm) inserted in a 4-tone sequence in 86 adult participants who were watching a silent movie. After the MEG recordings, participants were administered the WM primary subtests (Spatial Span and Letter Number Sequencing) of Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS).</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> We found significant correlations between frontal MMN amplitudes to intensity and slide deviants and WM performance. In case of intensity, the relation was revealed in all participants, while for slide only in individuals with a musical background.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Automatic neural responses to auditory feature changes are increased in individuals with higher visual WM performance.</p> <p><strong>Significance:</strong> Conscious WM abilities might be linked to pre-attentive sensory-specific neural skills of prediction and short-term storage of environmental regularities.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:c756d5d0-f87f-44a1-9916-91d061ae08022022-03-27T06:44:16ZAuditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scoresJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c756d5d0-f87f-44a1-9916-91d061ae0802EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2018Bonetti, LHaumann, NTBrattico, EKliuchko, MVuust, PSärkämö, TNäätänen, R<p><strong>Objective:</strong> Memory is the faculty responsible for encoding, storing and retrieving information, comprising several sub-systems such as sensory memory (SM) and working memory (WM). Some previous studies exclusively using clinical population revealed associations between these two memory systems. Here we aimed at investigating the relation between modality-general WM performance and auditory SM formation indexed by magnetic mismatch negativity (MMN) responses in a healthy population of young adults.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we recorded MMN amplitudes to changes related to six acoustic features (pitch, timbre, location, intensity, slide, and rhythm) inserted in a 4-tone sequence in 86 adult participants who were watching a silent movie. After the MEG recordings, participants were administered the WM primary subtests (Spatial Span and Letter Number Sequencing) of Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS).</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> We found significant correlations between frontal MMN amplitudes to intensity and slide deviants and WM performance. In case of intensity, the relation was revealed in all participants, while for slide only in individuals with a musical background.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Automatic neural responses to auditory feature changes are increased in individuals with higher visual WM performance.</p> <p><strong>Significance:</strong> Conscious WM abilities might be linked to pre-attentive sensory-specific neural skills of prediction and short-term storage of environmental regularities.</p>
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Haumann, NT
Brattico, E
Kliuchko, M
Vuust, P
Särkämö, T
Näätänen, R
Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
title Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
title_full Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
title_fullStr Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
title_full_unstemmed Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
title_short Auditory sensory memory and working memory skills: Association between frontal MMN and performance scores
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