Can anyone here who knows about language or memory or the brain or anything like that explain to me the difference between "phonological memory", "auditory short-term memory", and "phonological working memory"? I thought that phonological memory = auditory STM, and phonological WM means the phonological loop (which consists of rehearsal and storage mechanisms). Is that right?
I thought it was, but I'm reading this research article now that seems to be using phonological memory and phonological WM interchangeably - which I know is common practice in spite of their differences. BUT the issue I have is that it says the phonological memory mediates development of long-term representations of new words - but I thought it's the short-term memory and is basically in charge of short-term storage of verbal information, and it's the WM which does the manipulation and processing of information. Then the article goes on to say that utterances are held in phonological working memory.
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Should I not overthink it and just assume that they're discussing the phonological WM? That would be easier to understand but I don't want to get it wrong :/