Echoic store

Achava que apenas eu sofria deste mal... até ver o seguinte trecho no livro de psicologia cognitiva:

"The echoic store is a transient auditory store holding relatively unprocessed input. For example, suppose someone reading a newspaper is asked a question. The person addressed will sometimes ask, 'What did you say?', but the realize that he or she does know what has been said. This 'playback' facility depends on the echoic store. (...) the temporal duration of unattended auditory information in echoic storage is about 2 seconds."