Domain-Specific Working Memory: Neural Basis and Cognitive Implications with Randi Martin, PhD

Current approaches to verbal working memory typically assume a fundamental role of a storage system for retaining phonological (speech sound) information, but emerging evidence suggests the existence of a separate capacity involved in retaining semantic (meaning) information, with different neural networks underlying semantic and phonological working memory. In this talk, Martin discusses the important implications of different neural networks underlying semantic and phonological working memory for methods of testing working memory and for assumptions about how impairments to working memory impact complex cognitive functions.
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