Auditory short-term memory capacity correlates with gray matter density in the left posterior STS in cognitively normal and dyslexic adults

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3746-3756

  Richardson, Fiona M ^a   Ramsden, Sue ^a   Ellis, Caroline ^a   Burnett, Stephanie ^a   Megnin, Odette ^a   Catmur, Caroline ^b   Schofield, Tom M ^a   Leff, Alex P ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGIT SPAN SCORE; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT POSTERIOR STS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPOONERISM; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055115484     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00060     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Acheson, D. J., Hamidi, M., Binder, J. R., & Postle, B. R. (2011). A common neural substrate for language production and verbal working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1358-1367.
2. Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2009a). Twisting tongues and memories: Explorations of the relationship between language production and verbal working memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 329-350.
3. Acheson, D. J., & MacDonald, M. C. (2009b). Verbal working memory and language production: Common approaches to the serial ordering of verbal information. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 50-68.
4. Amici, S., Brambati, S. M., Wilkins, D. P., Ogar, J., Dronkers, N. L., Miller, B. L., et al. (2007). Anatomical correlates of sentence comprehension and verbal working memory in neurodegenerative disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 6282-6290.
5. Ashburner, J. (2007). A fast diffeomorphic image registration algorithm. Neuroimage, 38, 95-113.
6. Ashburner, J. (2009). Computational anatomy with the SPM software. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27, 1163-1174.
7. Awh, E., Jonides, J., Smith, E. E., Schumacher, E. H., Koeppe, R. A., & Katz, S. (1996). Dissociation of storage and rehearsal in verbal working memory: Evidence from positron emission tomography. Psychological Science, 7, 25-31.
8. Baddeley, A. (2003). Working memory: Looking back and looking forward. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 829-839.
9. Baddeley, A. D., & Hitch, G. J. (1974). Working memory. In G. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 7, pp. 47-90). New York: Academic Press.
10. Binder, J. R., Frost, J. A., Hammeke, T. A., Bellgowan, P. S. F., Springer, J. A., Kaufman, J. N., et al. (2000). Human temporal lobe activation by speech and nonspeech sounds. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 512-528.
11. Brambati, S. M., Termin, C., Ruffino, M., Stella, G., Fazio, F., Cappa, S. F., et al. (2004). Regional reductions of gray matter volume in familial dyslexia. Neurology, 63, 742-745.
12. Buchsbaum, B. R., & D'Esposito, M. (2008). The search for the phonological store: From loop to convolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 762-778.
13. Buchsbaum, B. R., Olsen, R. K., Koch, P., & Berman, K. F. (2005). Human dorsal and ventral auditory streams subserve rehearsal-based echoic processes during verbal working memory. Neuron, 48, 687-697.
14. Buchsbaum, B. R., Padmanabhan, A., & Berman, K. F. (2011). The neural substrates of recognition memory for verbal information: Spanning the divide between short- and long-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 978-991.
15. Bunge, S. A., Ochsner, K. N., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Prefrontal regions involved in keeping information in and out of mind. Brain, 124, 2074-2086.
16. Chen, S. H. A., & Desmond, J. E. (2005). Cerebrocerebellar networks during articulatory rehearsal and verbal working memory tasks. Neuroimage, 24, 332-338.
17. Cohen, J. D., Perlstein, W. M., Braver, T. S., Nystrom, L. E., Noll, D. C., Jonides, J., et al. (1997). Temporal activation of brain dynamics during a working memory task. Nature, 386, 604-608.
18. Cowan, N. (1984). On short and long auditory stores. Psychological Bulletin, 96, 341-370.
19. Crottaz-Herbette, S., Anagnoson, R. T., & Menon, V. (2004). Modality effects in verbal working memory: Differential prefrontal and parietal responses to auditory and visual stimuli. Neuroimage, 21, 340-351.
20. Deichmann, R., Schwarzbauer, C., & Turner, R. (2004). Optimisation of the 3D MDEFT sequence for anatomical brain imaging: Technical implications at 1.5T and 3T. Neuroimage, 21, 757-767.
21. Desai, R., Liebenthal, E., Waldron, E., & Binder, J. E. (2008). Left posterior temporal regions are sensitive to auditory categorization. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1174-1188.
22. D'Esposito, M. (2007). From cognitive to neural models of working memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 362, 761-772.
23. Eckert, M. A., Lombardino, L. J., Walczak, A. R., Bonihla, L., Leonard, C. M., & Binder, J. R. (2008). Manual and automated measures of superior temporal gyrus asymmetry: Concordant structural predictors of verbal ability in children. Neuroimage, 41, 813-822.
24. Ericsson, A., Chase, W. G., & Faloon, S. (1980). Acquisition of a memory skill. Science, 208, 1181-1182.
25. Frederickson, N., Frith, U., & Reason, R. (1997). Phonological assessment battery: Standardisation edition. Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
26. Gathercole, S. E. (2006). Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 513-543.
27. Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1989). Evaluation of the role of phonological STM in the development of vocabulary in children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 200-213.
28. Gathercole, S. E., Alloway, T. P., Willis, C., & Adams, A. M. (2006). Working memory in children with reading disabilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 265-281.
29. Good, C. D., Johnsrude, I. S., Ashburner, J., Henson, R. N. A., Friston, K., & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (2001). A voxel-based morphometric study of ageing in 465 normal adult human brains. Neuroimage, 14, 21-36.
30. Graves, W. W., Grabowski, T. J., Mehta, S., & Gordon, J. K. (2007). A neural signature of phonological access: Distinguishing the effects of word frequency from familiarity and length in overt picture naming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 617-631.
31. Graves, W. W., Grabowski, T. J., Mehta, S., & Gupta, P. (2008). The posterior superior temporal gyrus participates in accessing lexical phonology. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1698-1710.
32. Grogan, A., Green, D. W., Ali, N., Crinion, J. T., & Price, C. J. (2009). Structural correlates of semantic and phonemic fluency ability in first and second languages. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2690-2698.
33. Gruber, O., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2003). The functional neuroanatomy of human working memory revisited. Evidence from 3-T fMRI studies using classical domain interference tasks. Neuroimage, 19, 797-809.
34. Hatcher, J., Snowling, M. J., & Griffiths, Y. (2002). Cognitive assessment of dyslexic students in higher education. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 72, 119-133.
35. Henson, R. N., Burgess, N., & Frith, C. D. (2000). Recoding, storage, rehearsal and grouping in verbal short-term memory: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 38, 426-440.
36. Hickok, G., Buchsbaum, B., Humphries, C., & Muftuler, T. (2003). Auditory-motor interaction revealed by fMRI: Speech, music and working memory in area Spt. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 673-682.
37. Hoeft, F., Meyler, A., Hernandez, A., Juel, C., Taylor-Hill, H., Martindale, J. L., et al. (2007). Functional and morphometric brain dissociation between dyslexia and reading ability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 4, 4234-4239.
38. Jonides, J., Schumacher, E. H., Smith, E. E., Koeppe, R. A., Awh, E., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., et al. (1998). The role of the parietal cortex in verbal working memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 5026-5034.
39. Kimberg, D. Y., Coslett, H. B., & Schwartz, M. F. (2007). Power in voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1067-1080.
40. Kirschen, M. P., Chen, S. H. A., Schraedley-Desmond, P., & Desmond, J. E. (2005). Load- and practice-dependent increases in cerebro-cerebellar activation in verbal working memory: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 24, 462-472.
41. Koelsch, S., Schulze, K., Sammler, D., Fritz, T., Müller, K., & Gruber, O. (2009). Functional architecture of verbal and tonal working memory: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 859-873.
42. Lee, H. L., Devlin, J. T., Shakeshaft, C., Stewart, L. H., Brennan, A., Glensman, J., et al. (2007). Anatomical traces of vocabulary acquisition in the adolescent brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 1184-1189.
43. Leech, R., Holt, L. L., Devlin, J. T., & Dick, F. (2009). Expertise with artificial nonspeech sounds recruits speech-sensitive cortical regions. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 5234-5239.
44. Leff, A., Schofield, T., Crinion, J., Seghier, M., Grogan, A., Green, D., et al. (2009). The left superior temporal gyrus is a shared substrate for auditory short-term memory and speech comprehension: Evidence from 210 stroke patients. Brain, 132, 3401-3410.
45. Mechelli, A., Crinion, J. T., Noppeney, U., O'Doherty, J., Ashburner, J., Frackowiak, R. S. J., et al. (2004). Neurolinguistics: Structural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Nature, 431, 757.
46. Mechelli, A., Price, C. J., Friston, K., & Ashburner, J. (2005). Voxel-based morphometry of the human brain: Methods and applications. Current Medical Imaging Reviews, 1, 105-113.
47. Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review, 63, 81-97.
48. Page, M. P. A., Madge, A., Cumming, N., & Norris, D. G. (2007). Speech errors and the phonological similarity effect in short-term memory: Evidence suggesting a common locus. Journal of Memory and Language, 56, 49-64.
49. Paulesu, E., Frith, C. D., & Frackowiak, R. S. (1993). The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory. Nature, 362, 342-345.
50. Pernet, C., Andersson, J., Paulesu, E., & Demonet, J. F. (2009). When all hypotheses are right: A multifocal account of dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 2278-2292.
51. Price, C. J., Thierry, G., & Griffiths, T. (2005). Speech-specific auditory processing: Where is it? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 271-276.
52. Ravizza, S. M., Delgado, M. R., Chein, J. M., Becker, J. T., & Fiez, J. A. (2004). Functional dissociations within the inferior parietal cortex in verbal working memory. Neuroimage, 22, 562-573.
53. Richardson, F. M., & Price, C. J. (2009). Structural MRI studies of language function in the undamaged brain. Brain Structure and Function, 213, 511-523.
54. Richardson, F. M., Thomas, M. S. C., Filippi, R., Harth, H., & Price, C. J. (2010). Contrasting effects of vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structure across lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 943-954.
55. Rudrauf, D., Mehta, S., Bruss, J., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., & Grabowski, T. J. (2008). Thresholding lesion overlap difference maps: Application to category-related naming and recognition deficits. Neuroimage, 41, 970-984.
56. Rypma, B., Prabhakaran, V., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1999). Load-dependent roles of frontal brain regions in the maintenance of working memory. Neuroimage, 9, 216-226.
57. Salmon, E., Van der Linden, M., Collette, F., Delfiore, G., Maquet, P., Degueldre, C., et al. (1996). Regional brain activity during working memory tasks. Brain, 119, 1617-1625.
58. Scott, S. K., Blank, S. C., Rosen, S., & Wise, R. J. S. (2000). Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left temporal lobe. Brain, 123, 2400-2406.
59. Silani, G., Frith, U., Demonet, J.-F., Fazio, F., Perani, D., Price, C., et al. (2005). Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: A voxel based morphometry study. Brain, 128, 2453-2461.
60. Smith, E. E., Jonides, J., & Koeppe, R. A. (1996). Dissociating verbal and spatial working memory using PET. Cerebral Cortex, 6, 11-20.
61. Smith, E. E., Jonides, J., Koeppe, R. A., Awh, E., Schumacher, E., & Minoshima, S. (1995). Spatial vs. object working memory: PET investigations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 337-358.
62. Snowling, M. J., Nation, K., Moxham, P., Gallagher, A., & Frith, U. (1997). Phonological processing deficits in dyslexic students: A preliminary account. Journal of Research in Reading, 20, 31-34.
63. Steinbrink, C., Vogt, K., Kastrup, A., Müller, H.-P., Juengling, F. D., Kassubek, J., et al. (2008). The contribution of white and gray matter differences to developmental dyslexia: Insights from DTI and VBM at 3.0T. Neuropsychologia, 46, 3170-3178.
64. Strand, T., Forssberg, H., Klingberg, T., & Norrelgen, F. (2008). Phonological working memory with auditory presentation of pseudowords-An event related fMRI study. Brain Research, 1212, 48-54.
65. Thierry, G., Giraud, A.-L., & Price, C. J. (2003). Hemispheric dissociation in access to the human semantic system. Neuron, 38, 499-506.
66. Thierry, G., Ibarrola, D., Démonet, J.-F., & Cardebat, D. (2003). Demand in verbal working memory delays hemodynamic response in inferior prefrontal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 19, 37-46.
67. Wechsler, D. (1998). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-3rd Edition. London: Harcourt Assessment.
68. Wilde, N. J., Strauss, E., & Tulsky, D. S. (2004). Memory span on the Weschler scales. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 26, 539-549.
69. Wilkinson, G. S. (1993). Wide Range Achievement Test-Revision 3. Wilmington, DE: Jastak Association.
70. Wilson, S. M., Isenberg, A. L., & Hickok, G. (2009). Neural correlates of word production stages by parametric modulation of psycholinguistic variables. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3596-3608.
71. Wise, R. J. S., Scott, S. K., Blank, S. C., Mummary, C. J., Murphy, K., & Warburton, E. A. (2001). Separate neural subsystems within "Wernicke's area." Brain, 124, 83-95.