PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CODING IN VERBAL SHORT-TERM-MEMORY AND LEARNING

A patient with selective auditory phonological coding defect is descri bed. Be also showed a defective auditory verbal short-term memory but could learn lists of words flawlessly, thus closely resembling patient s with pure short-term memory defects. We argue that the patient's fun ctional defect could be conceived as a capacity limitation of the phon ological short-term store. An experimental evaluation of his Verbal sh ort- and long-term memory performances allows a discussion of the inte raction of phonological and lexical coding processes in verbal short t erm memory and learning. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.