Short-Term Auditory Memory

Short-term auditory memory is one of the many skills addressed by the Audiblox program.

During an Audiblox lesson, one would do several Audiblox exercises. Each individual exercise develops and automatizes a variety of foundational skills. The aim of Auditory exercise 1, for example — of which a demonstration can be downloaded onto your computer — is to develop short-term auditory memory, as well as the following foundational skills:

• Auditory and visual discrimination of foreground-background;
• Auditory and visual discrimination of position in time and space;
• Auditory and visual discrimination of color;
• Auditory and visual analysis of position in time and space;
• Auditory and visual synthesis of position in time and space;
• Auditory and visual discrimination of dimensionality;
• Integration;
• Imagination;
• Concentration.

The sample exercise is demonstrated by Dr. Jan Strydom, the developer of the Audiblox program, and Abram Chauke, an Audiblox Master Trainer. The exercise is a 2 MByte MPG video clip and can be played using either Windows Media Player or Quick Time. You will need a sound card (with loudspeakers connected) in your computer to hear the audio.

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