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3 pages in length. What Winkler and Cowan (2005) have accomplished in their study is to illustrate how certain auditory cues elicit memory recall more expediently than others, which serves to indicate that variations of sound – such as with human voice recognition – is a critical component of encoding, storage and recall capabilities. It has long been surmised by virtue of scientific research that people tend to lose sensory information within seconds of absorbing it, rendering subsequent recall a tentative proposition. However, auditory cues have been shown to remain with a person for longer periods of time than other sensory information, typically thirty seconds. These findings provide insight as to why people often recognize the sound of someone's voice – even from years past – yet not identify the individual by sight or other sensory information. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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certain auditory cues elicit memory recall more expediently than others, which serves to indicate that variations of sound - such as with human voice recognition - is a critical component
of encoding, storage and recall capabilities. It has long been surmised by virtue of scientific research that people tend to lose sensory information within seconds of absorbing it, rendering
subsequent recall a tentative proposition. However, auditory cues have been shown to remain with a person for longer periods of time than other sensory information, typically thirty seconds.
These findings provide insight as to why people often recognize the sound of someones voice - even from years past - yet not identify the individual by sight or other
sensory information. "Results obtained with this paradigm suggest that the brain stores features of individual sounds embedded within representations of acoustic regularities that have been detected for the sound
patterns and sequences in which the sounds appeared. Thus, sounds closely linked with their auditory context are more likely to be remembered" (Winkler et al, 2005, pp. 3-20).
II. CRITIQUE While internal memory cues such as moods and emotions possess significant influence upon memory recall, external sensory triggers also play an integral role in the manner by which
humans remember events from the past. The authors study - which incorporates the elements of encoding, storage and retrieval - has opened an entirely new pathway for dissecting the
subtle nuances of auditory memory and the specific way in which tones and pitches regulate what is more readily recalled over other sounds. Understanding how and why auditory memory
is activated with, for example, the human voice overriding other sounds that have not left behind a mental image to more easily combine for better recall. This information is
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