“…A variety of methodological approaches now provide converging lines of evidence for the idea that superior temporal cortex is a critical component of the cortical network underlying phonological working memory on the basis of its operationalization in cognitive psychology. Superior temporal cortices are now routinely implicated in functional neuroimaging studies of auditory short-term memory (e.g., Buchsbaum et al, 2005;Strand, Forssberg, Klingberg, & Norrelgen, 2008), and anatomical neuroimaging studies have found correlations between the macroanatomical structure of the superior temporal cortex and verbal working memory capacity in individuals with both language-impaired and developmentally typical profiles (Lu et al, 2016;Richardson et al, 2011). These results parallel growing evidence from large-sample studies of auditory short-term memory deficits following brain injury, which specifically attribute this impairment to lesioned tissue in left superior temporal cortex (Koenigs et al, 2011;Leff et al, 2009).…”