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Neural Bases for Working Memory of Natural Sound Textures

Holding sound objects in mind is critical to understanding the sound world around us. Auditory texture perception is thought to rely on extracting statistical properties of sounds over time, raising the question of how encoding duration influences subsequent maintenance of auditory texture information. We investigated this question using behavioural performance and fMRI while participants…

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