More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically – until now. A novel Brandeis University study confirms the Newtonian idea that sight and sound are indeed parallel – at least when it comes to encoding and retrieving short-term memories from the two senses.
K. Visscher, E. Kaplan, M.J. Kahana & R. Sekuler: Auditory short-term memory behaves like visual short-term memory (PDF, 975 KB)