Which Speech-Perception Task Would Place the Greatest Demand on Short-Term

question 2

Multiple Choice

Which speech-perception task would place the greatest demand on short-term memory (working memory) ?

• A) A task in which a subject in an fMRI scanner passively listens to repeating syllable stimuli that sometimes change acoustically
• B) A task in which a subject is instructed to click on a computer image that matches a word they hear
• C) A forced-choice identification task
• D) An ABX discrimination task

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