echoic memory

British

noun

psychol the ability to recapture the exact impression of a sound shortly after the sound has finished Compare iconic memory

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Audiobooks, by contrast, exploit our “echoic memory”, which is the process by which sound information is stored for up to four seconds while we wait for the next sounds to make sense of the whole.

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