Phonological Loop General
This component of the working-memory model processes language and sound-based information.
What is the phonological loop?
This hemisphere of the brain is primarily involved in language processing.
What is the left hemisphere?
The phonological loop is involved in learning new words in both a first and second language, as well as this cognitive skill.
What is reading?
The phonological loop processes these two types of sounds.
What are sounds you hear and sounds you make?
Researchers use this neuroscience technique to briefly disrupt brain activity and study the phonological loop.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
The phonological loop has a limited capacity, often estimated at this number of items
What is 7 ± 2 items?
When silently pronouncing words while reading, you are engaging in this process.
What is subvocalization?
When processing long and grammatically complex sentences, these two brain areas are engaged.
What are the left frontal lobe and left parietal lobe?
The phonological loop helps with problem-solving tasks, such as keeping track of numbers in this type of everyday task.
What is mathematical calculation?
The phonological loop helps store verbal material while performing this common real-world task, like giving directions.
What is verbal communication?
Disrupting the left parietal lobe with TMS caused difficulty in storing and recalling these types of sentences.
What are long but simple sentences?
The phonological loop is engaged when you silently remind yourself of tasks or instructions, a process known as this.
What is self-instruction?
This phenomenon explains why people confuse similar-sounding stimuli when recalling information.
What is an acoustic confusion?
People make more errors when trying to remember letters with this characteristic.
What is similar-sounding letter names?
People perform better in memory tasks when the items they are trying to remember have this characteristic.
What is being phonologically distinct?