A Brain System for Auditory Working Memory — TEI-tagged view

Kumar, Joseph, Gander, Barascud, Halpern, Griffiths · 2016 · neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4341-14.2016 · full text at the source · TEI xml · tagged edition · index · concepts · authors
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AWM maintenance4 encoding6 retrieval10 auditory cortex19 HG2 PT2 hippocampus29 LIFG RIFG IFJ DMN3 MVPA3 PPI4 retro-cue LTM3 activated LTM rehearsal3 WM5 behavioral performance2 connectivity13 sustained activity fmri24

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phenomenonauditory working memory— “This work concerns the neural bases for human auditory working memory (AWM), the process of keeping sounds in mind for short periods of time when the sounds are no longer present in the environment.”
claim-typemechanism— “The data support a system for auditory working memory based on the maintenance of sound-specific representations in auditory cortex by projections from higher-order areas, including the hippocampus and frontal cortex.”
method — evidence— “Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in human participants, we demonstrate that the maintenance of single tones in memory is associated with activation in auditory cortex.”
object of study — evidence— “The brain basis for auditory working memory, the process of actively maintaining sounds in memory over short periods of time, is controversial. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in human participants, we demonstrate that the maintenance of single tones in memory is associated with activation in auditory cortex. In addition…
research question — evidence— “In contrast to a number of human neuroimaging studies in the visual domain showing the involvement of early visual areas in working memory ( Pasternak and Greenlee, 2005 ; Postle, 2006 ; for review, see D'Esposito and Postle, 2015 ), evidence for the involvement of auditory cortex in AWM is both limited and conflicting.”
contribution — evidence— “The data support a system for auditory working memory based on the maintenance of sound-specific representations in auditory cortex by projections from higher-order areas, including the hippocampus and frontal cortex.”
transferfrom visual working memory research: multivoxel pattern analysis of the delay period, imported to ask whether auditory delay activity is content-specific— “Using standard univariate (GLM) analysis, no difference in activity during the maintenance period was found for retention of a low versus a high tone. We used MVPA to test whether patterns of activity during the maintenance period could distinguish between low and high tones.”transfers[0]
transferfrom attention research: the retro-cue, whose protective effect is used to explain why two studies of the same question disagree— “Behavioral studies ( Matsukura et al., 2007 ; Pertzov et al., 2013 ) show that, without any cue, items maintained in memory tend to be forgotten rapidly, but a selective retro-cue leads to protection of the cued item from temporal decay during the maintenance period. It is also known that maintaining multiple items, without a selective cue…transfers[1]
mechanismTone-specific representations in left inferior frontal gyrus drive subvocal rehearsal that re-activates auditory cortex, forming a closed loop that keeps the sound representation alive during the delay— “Our data, therefore, suggest that HG and LIFG, possibly via PT, form a closed loop where tone-specific representations in the LIFG initiate subvocal rehearsal, which activates the auditory cortex.”mechanisms[0]
mechanismSubjects who lose the tone from the focus of attention retrieve it from activated long-term memory, engaging hippocampus but importing proactive interference from tones of previous trials, which is why hippocampal activity tracks poorer accuracy— “These subjects, however, would perform poorly on the task because recalling the tone from LTM would entail proactive interference from tones that were presented on previous trials, which are also held in LTM; as per the model of Cowan (1995) , these tones are held in the activated part of LTM.”mechanisms[1]
mechanismDefault-mode-network engagement during the delay indexes mind wandering, which withdraws resources from maintenance and lowers accuracy— “Greater activation in this network, therefore, implies more mind wandering during the maintenance period and, therefore, poorer performance.”mechanisms[2]
mechanismhippocampal activity here may form part of the activated LTM component of WM, because tones changed across trials and were maintained for long intervals of time (16 s)— “In our study, we used tones that changed across trials that were maintained for long intervals of time (16 s). It is, therefore, likely that subjects relied on LTM to perform the task activating hippocampus in the process. Activity in hippocampus in that case would form part of the activated LTM component of WM.”mechanisms[3]
mechanismleft inferior frontal gyrus and HG may form a closed loop in which tone-specific frontal representations drive subvocal rehearsal that reactivates auditory cortex— “Our data, therefore, suggest that HG and LIFG, possibly via PT, form a closed loop where tone-specific representations in the LIFG initiate subvocal rehearsal, which activates the auditory cortex.”mechanisms[4]
mechanisma retro-cue protects the cued item from decay, which is why cueing one of two tones gives activation where holding both uncued gave suppression— “Behavioral studies ( Matsukura et al., 2007 ; Pertzov et al., 2013 ) show that, without any cue, items maintained in memory tend to be forgotten rapidly, but a selective retro-cue leads to protection of the cued item from temporal decay during the maintenance period. It is also known that maintaining multiple items, without a selective cue…mechanisms[5]
mechanismPT may hold symbolic templates further from the sensory pattern, which would make its content harder to decode from blood flow— “Possible explanations for this finding include the idea that the representation in PT is in the form of high-level symbolic representations or “templates” ( Griffiths and Warren, 2002 ) as opposed to activity in HG that might more closely match the sensory pattern of the stimulus. Templates in PT might be more removed from the stimulus…mechanisms[6]
mechanismposterior hippocampus may be more involved in real-time analysis of auditory stimuli, which predicts stronger connectivity with auditory cortex— “One possible interpretation is that the posterior hippocampus, compared with the anterior hippocampus, is more involved in the analysis of auditory stimuli in real time, during perception. This in turn predicts greater functional and structural connectivity between auditory cortex and the posterior hippocampus.”mechanisms[7]
contradicts Linke et al. (2011)— “We observed sustained activation of the auditory cortex during a maintenance period, which is in contrast to findings from Linke et al. (2011) , who observed suppression during maintenance.”claim_relations[0]
replicates Linke and Cusack (2015)— “The later study of Linke and Cusack (2015) , which required maintenance of a single sound in WM showed activation during maintenance, like the present study.”claim_relations[1]
builds-on Jeneson and Squire (2011)— “In light of the proposal by Jeneson and Squire (2011) , we predicted that subjects who could not maintain a sustained focus of attention on the tone to be maintained would rely more on LTM, and, therefore, hippocampus would be activated to a greater extent in these subjects.”claim_relations[2]
contradicts Linke 2011's observation of suppression in auditory cortex during maintenance of two tones— “We observed sustained activation of the auditory cortex during a maintenance period, which is in contrast to findings from Linke et al. (2011) , who observed suppression during maintenance. This might be attributable to differences in the task in the two…claim_relations[3]
reconciles the conflicting reports of increased and decreased auditory cortical activity during auditory working memoryclaim_relations[4]
confirms Linke and Cusack 2015's activation during maintenance of a single sound
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supports Jeneson and Squire's account in which hippocampal activity during working memory reflects recourse to long-term memory
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builds-on visual working memory studies showing content-specific subthreshold activity during the delay
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senseSUSTAINED ACTIVITY IS NOT WORKING MEMORY: a region can hold information in subthreshold patterns without elevated activity, and elevated activity can reflect sustained attention instead
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sensethe maintenance regressor is only interpretable because its correlation with the encoding regressor was MEASURED at 0.04 - the phases are adjacent in time and the BOLD response is lagged
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sensethe classifier sees only the middle 10.5 s of the delay, with 4 s trimmed at each end, because the probe tone belonged to the same category and could otherwise leak into the decoding
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senseconnectivity is never compared with rest, because heart rate and other physiological variables differ between task and rest and are known to confound functional connectivity
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sensethe inclusion criteria differ BY ANALYSIS and each difference is justified: poor performers are excluded from classification to reduce noise and retained in the univariate analysis because the brain-behaviour correlation requires the spread
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sensed-PRIME is d', the signal-detection sensitivity index, and not a priming prime despite carrying the word: it is the per-subject detection measure (0.89, 0.99, 1.16) used as the exclusion criterion for the pattern analysis
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controlonly the middle 10.5 seconds of the maintenance period were modelled, discarding 4 seconds at each end — held — rules out that the maintenance signal is contaminated by the haemodynamic response to stimulus onset or to the probe at the end
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controlsubjects performed a pitch discrimination task outside the scanner before taking part — held — rules out that a failure of memory is really a failure of PERCEPTION - a subject who cannot hear the pitch difference cannot remember it either
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notesustained activity —distinct-from→ WM — TWO WAYS THE OLD INDEX FAILS: a region can carry content without elevated activity, and elevated activity can be sustained attention instead
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auditencoding —distinct-from→ maintenance — Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span discusses separating encoding and maintenance regressors; distinct-from is loose.
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noteencoding —distinct-from→ maintenance — CONFOUND MEASURED, NOT ASSUMED: the two regressors correlate at 0.04, so maintenance activity is not encoding leaking forward through the lagged BOLD response
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auditretrieval —distinct-from→ maintenance — Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says the probe likely re-cued the maintained category; distinct-from is loose.
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noteretrieval —distinct-from→ maintenance — LEAKAGE THE OTHER WAY: the probe was of the cued category, so 4 s is trimmed from each end of the delay before decoding
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noteHG —contrasted-with→ PT — PT carries 84.42% of the surviving maintenance voxels and yet HG is the one whose PATTERNS decode the tone - activation and content dissociate
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noteLIFG —contrasted-with→ RIFG — CRITERION: both are active throughout maintenance and only the LEFT carries decodable content - activation and content dissociate here too
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auditRETRACTED (TWO EFFECTS OF A COMMON CAUSE, TAGGED AS CAUSING EACH OTHER - a class I have not named before) · hippocampus —causes→ behavioral performance — Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span states a prediction; causes states it as a finding.
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noteRETRACTED (TWO EFFECTS OF A COMMON CAUSE, TAGGED AS CAUSING EACH OTHER - a class I have not named before) · hippocampus —causes→ behavioral performance — SIGN NEGATIVE, AND PREDICTED IN ADVANCE FROM THE RIVAL'S MODEL: more hippocampal activity should mean worse performance if it reflects falling back on long-term memory
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retractedRETRACTED (TWO EFFECTS OF A COMMON CAUSE, TAGGED AS CAUSING EACH OTHER - a class I have not named before) · hippocampus —causes→ behavioral performance — TWO EFFECTS OF A COMMON CAUSE, TAGGED AS CAUSING EACH OTHER - a class I have not named before. The edge is 'hippocampus --causes--> behavioral performance'. The span is a chain of PREDICTIONS: '…on LTM, and, THEREFORE, hippocampus WOULD BE ACTIVATED…'. The upstream cause is failure to sustain attention, which produces LTM reliance; LTM reliance produces BOTH greater hippocampal activation AND poor performance. Hippocampal activation is a MARKER of the same upstream process, not a cause of the performance. Reading the two consequences as one causing the other is the classic confound, and here the paper itself lays the structure out. WHAT THE SPAN DOES SAY: housed below as the common-cause structure, since no type can record 'these two share a cause'.
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weightRETRACTED (TWO EFFECTS OF A COMMON CAUSE, TAGGED AS CAUSING EACH OTHER - a class I have not named before) · hippocampus —causes→ behavioral performance — 0.6
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auditDMN —causes→ behavioral performance — Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but DMN activity was NEGATIVELY CORRELATED with performance, interpreted as mind wandering; causes overstates a correlation.
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effect directionDMN —causes→ behavioral performance — reduces
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evidential statusDMN —causes→ behavioral performance — CORRELATIONAL, NOT INTERVENTIONAL: the paper reports a negative CORRELATION between DMN activity and performance; nothing was manipulated, and the mind-wandering account that follows is offered as an interpretation
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noteDMN —causes→ behavioral performance — SIGN NEGATIVE: read as mind wandering during the delay
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weightDMN —causes→ behavioral performance — 0.7
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notePPI —operationalised-as→ connectivity — and the rest BASELINE IS REFUSED for it: heart rate differs between task and rest, so every contrast is task-against-task
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for which uselimitation — the retrieval interpretation of the dorsal-anterior right IFG: WE CANNOT DISSOCIATE WHETHER THE ACTIVITY IS RELATED TO MOTOR RESPONSE OR TO RETRIEVAL OF WM INFORMATION
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for which uselimitation — the rehearsal reading of motor activity: THE ROLE OF MOTOR AREAS IN WORKING MEMORY IS STILL CONTROVERSIAL AS STUDIES USING NONREHEARSABLE STIMULI ALSO SHOW ACTIVITY IN MOTOR AREAS
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for which uselimitation — the subvocal-rehearsal account of the LIFG activity: WE DID NOT EXPLICITLY INSTRUCT THE SUBJECTS TO FOLLOW ANY PARTICULAR STRATEGY, so rehearsal is inferred and not controlled
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duplicate oflimitation — limitations[0]
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for which uselimitation — the same scope as limitations[0] - at retrieval, motor and memory cannot be separated
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for which uselimitation — the same scope as limitations[2], with the standing dispute attached
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for which uselimitation — the group-level classification result: FOR HG, 9 OF 13 SUBJECTS PERFORMED ABOVE THE CHANCE LEVEL ... FOR THE LEFT IFG, EIGHT SUBJECTS WERE ABOVE THE CHANCE LEVEL AND FIVE PERFORMED BELOW
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for which uselimitation — the sample size, which differs by analysis on purpose: three poor performers WERE DROPPED FROM THE ANALYSIS ... WE DID NOT DROP THESE SUBJECTS FROM THE UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO ANALYZE THE CORRELATION OF BRAIN ACTIVITY WITH BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE
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duplicate ofmechanism — mechanisms[4]
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no type for thisLTM → hippocampus — COMMON CAUSE, NOT A CHAIN. Subjects who cannot sustain attention rely more on LTM; LTM reliance predicts BOTH greater hippocampal activation AND poorer performance, the latter via proactive interference from previously presented tones. The hippocampal signal and the performance drop are sibling effects. Stated as a PREDICTION, not a result.
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limitationRetrieval-phase activity in the dorsal-anterior right IFG cannot be attributed to retrieval rather than motor response.
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limitationThe rehearsal interpretation of motor-area activity during maintenance is contested in the wider literature.
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limitationSubjects were not instructed to use any particular strategy, so the subvocal-rehearsal account of the LIFG activity is inferred rather than controlled.
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limitationfor the frontal focus active only at retrieval, motor response and memory retrieval cannot be dissociated
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limitationno strategy was instructed, so rehearsal is inferred rather than controlled, and the role of motor areas in working memory is itself contested
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limitationclassification was above chance in only two of five regions, and in left inferior frontal gyrus five of thirteen subjects fell below chance
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limitationthree subjects were dropped from the pattern analysis for poor performance but kept in the univariate analysis, because the correlation with behaviour needed them
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findingDuring the 16 s maintenance period, sustained auditory-cortex activity was concentrated in PT, with 84.42% of suprathreshold voxels lying there.
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findingNo suppression of auditory cortex activity was observed in any of the three task phases.
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findingOnly HG (55.61%) and left inferior frontal gyrus (54.25%) carried information about whether a low or high tone was being held; PT, hippocampus and right inferior frontal gyrus classified at chance.
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findingUnivariate analysis found no maintenance-period activity difference between holding a low and a high tone.
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findingHippocampus was significantly active in all three phases of the task - encoding, maintenance and retrieval.
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findingAlong the hippocampal long axis, encoding activity was stronger anteriorly and retrieval activity stronger posteriorly.
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findingHippocampal activity during maintenance correlated negatively with task accuracy: subjects with more hippocampal activity performed worse.
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findingAuditory cortex was strongly connected to the right hippocampus, both posterior and anterior.
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findingno suppression of auditory cortical activity was seen in any phase of the task
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findingduring maintenance 84.42 percent of surviving auditory voxels lay in PT
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findinghippocampal activity was constant along the anterior-posterior axis during maintenance but rose posteriorly during encoding and retrieval
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findingTHE UNIVARIATE NULL THAT MOTIVATED THE PATTERN ANALYSIS: mean activity did not differ between holding a low and a high tone
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findingonly HG at 55.61 percent and left inferior frontal gyrus at 54.25 percent classified the held tone above chance
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findingAND THE PER-SUBJECT SPLIT IS REPORTED: 9 of 13 above chance in HG, and only 8 of 13 in left inferior frontal gyrus
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findingPARAMETRIC ASSUMPTION CHECKED: a permutation test over 100,000 resamples gave p values almost identical to the t tests
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findingTHE REGRESSOR CONFOUND MEASURED: encoding and maintenance regressors correlated at only 0.04
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findingand the analysis was repeated on only the middle of the delay period, with very similar results
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findingDECODING LEAKAGE PREVENTED: the probe belonged to the cued category, so 4 s was trimmed from each end before classification
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findingTHE REST BASELINE WAS REFUSED for connectivity, because physiological variables differ between task and rest and confound functional connectivity
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findingINCLUSION CRITERIA DIFFER BY ANALYSIS, each justified: three poor performers dropped from classification and kept in the univariate analysis
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findingA PREDICTION DERIVED FROM THE RIVAL'S MODEL: if hippocampal activity means falling back on long-term memory, it should correlate NEGATIVELY with performance
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findingand that is what was found - activity in both hippocampi increased as performance worsened
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findingdefault mode network activity also correlated negatively with performance, read as mind wandering
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findingas did right inferior frontal junction activity, read as updating working memory from long-term memory
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findingparietal activity correlated POSITIVELY with performance, read as sustained attention
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findingA CONTRADICTION RESOLVED BY A DESIGN VARIABLE: the earlier suppression finding used two uncued tones, this study cued one of two after presentation
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findingand a later study holding a single sound found activation, agreeing with this one
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findingin that comparison auditory cortex showed no long-range connectivity, only connections between HG and PT within it
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findingduring maintenance auditory cortex connected to right hippocampus and to left inferior frontal gyrus
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findingaccuracy ranged from 67 to 98 percent and was better for the first tone than the second
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findingseventeen adults with normal hearing and no musical training took part
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quantity16 s — duration for which a single cued tone had to be held in working memory
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quantitySeventeen healthy adults — number of participants recruited for the fMRI experiment
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quantity67% to 98% (mean, 83.5%; SD, 10%) — range and mean of participants' overall task accuracy
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quantityfirst tone, 85.7%; second tone, 81.3% — accuracy advantage for retaining the first rather than the second tone of the pair
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quantity0.04 — correlation between the encoding and maintenance regressors in the design matrix, used to argue maintenance activity is not contaminated by encoding
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quantity100,000 — number of resamples used to build the null distribution for group classification accuracy
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quantity0.0013 and 0.015 — nonparametric p values for above-chance decoding in HG and left inferior frontal gyrus, matching the parametric t test values
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quantity0.04 — correlation between encoding and maintenance regressors, the measured bound on contamination
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quantity55.61% and 54.25% — above-chance classification accuracy in HG and left IFG, where chance is 50%
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quantity9 of 13 and 8 of 13 — subjects above chance in the two decodable regions
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quantity84.42% — share of maintenance-surviving auditory voxels lying in PT
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quantity67% to 98% — range of behavioural accuracy across subjects, the spread the correlations depend on
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variableBOLD activity (dependent)
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variableaccuracy scores (dependent)
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variableage of the subjects (covariate)
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variablemaintenance
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variablesustained activity
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definitionauditory working memory (AWM)
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definitionmultivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA)
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definitionactivated LTM component
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definitionAWM
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definitionMVPA
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definitionactivated LTM
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key-termsAWM, maintenance, encoding, retrieval, auditory cortex, HG, PT, hippocampus, LIFG, RIFG, MVPA, PPI, retro-cue, LTM, DMN, sustained activity, WM, rehearsal
Concepts
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conceptDMN — not defined in this paper's own words; default mode network, read as mind wandering
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conceptbehavioral performance — not defined in this paper's own words; the accuracy score every brain-behaviour correlation is against
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Statistics — cross-field join keys
field-invariant statistical terms, used in their statistical sense (gated on a number / symbol / test). A p-value or a standard deviation means the SAME thing in physics, biology, psychology and sociology — so these are the strongest cross-field join keys. Grounded verbatim.
t-test t as written: one-tailed t tests
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ANOVA F as written: two-way repeated-measures ANOVA
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general linear model GLM as written: general linear model (GLM)
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regression as written: regression analysis with age of the subjects as a regressor of no interest
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multiple-comparison correction (false discovery rate) as written: false discovery rate method
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permutation test as written: nonparametric test for MVPA
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cross-validation as written: leave-one-session-out cross-validation strategy
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small-volume correction as written: small-volume correction (using anatomically defined volumes)
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psychophysiological interaction analysis PPI as written: psychophysiological interactions (PPIs)
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support vector machine
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false discovery rate
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one-tailed t tests
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Second readings
a facet read a second time, independently, from its own sentence — and whether the two readings agree
claim typemechanism — a second reading reaching the same value; recorded: mechanism
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methodevent-related fMRI with separate encoding, maintenance and retrieval regressors, multivoxel pattern classification, and psychophysiological-interaction connectivity — a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value; recorded: fmri
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phenomenonsustained activity in auditory cortex, hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus across a sixteen-second maintenance period — a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value; recorded: auditory working memory
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