The working memory of musicians and nonmusicians

Music Perception

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 183-191

  Talamini, Francesca ^a   Carretti, Barbara ^a   Grassi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Articulatory suppression; Digit span; Musicians; Nonmusicians; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007200917     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/MP.2016.34.2.183     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. KOELSCH, S., SCHROGER, E., & TERVANIEMI, M. (1999). Superior pre-attentive auditory processing in musicians. Neuroreport, 10, 1309-1313.
2. LAW, L. N., & ZENTNER, M. (2012). Assessing musical abilities objectively: Construction and validation of the Profile of Music Perception Skills. PloS One, 7, e52508. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052508
3. LEE, Y. S., LU, M. J., & KO, H. P. (2007). Effects of skill training on working memory capacity. Learning and Instruction, 17, 336-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.02.010
4. MICHEYL, C., DELHOMMEAU, K., PERROT, X., & OXENHAM, A. J. (2006). Influence of musical and psychoacoustical training on pitch discrimination. Hearing Research, 219, 36-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.05.004
5. NUTLEY, S. B., DARKI, F., & KLINGBERG, T. (2014). Music practice is associated with development of working memory during childhood and adolescence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 1-9 (article #926). DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00926
6. PALLESEN, K. J., BRATTICO, E., BAILEY, C. J., KORVENOJA, A., KOIVISTO, J., GJEDDE, A., & CARLSON, S. (2010). Cognitive control in auditory working memory is enhanced in musicians. PloS One, 5, e11120. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011120
7. PARBERY-CLARK, A., SKOE, E., & KRAUS, E. (2009). Musical experience limits the degradative effects of background noise on the neural processing of sound. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 14100-14107. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3256-09.2009
8. PARASKEVOPOULOS, E., KUCHENBUCH, A., HERHOLZ, S. C., & PANTEV, C. (2012). Musical expertise induces audiovisual integration of abstract congruency rules. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 18196-18203.
9. PARASKEVOPOULOS, E., KRANEBURG, A., HERHOLZ, S. C., BAMIDIS, P. D., & PANTEV, C. (2015). Musical expertise is related to altered functional connectivity during audiovisual integration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 12522-12527.
10. RAMACHANDRA, V., MEIGHAN, C., & GRADZKI, J. (2012). The impact of musical training on the phonological memory and the central executive: A brief report. North American Journal of Psychology, 14, 541-548.
11. RAMMSAYER, T., & ALTENMÜLLER, E. (2006). Temporal information processing in musicians and nonmusicians. Music Perception, 24, 37-48. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2006.24.1.37
12. SALAMÉ, P., & BADDELEY, A. (1989). Effects of background music on phonological short-term memory, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 41, 107-122. DOI: 10.1080/14640748908402355
13. SCHELLENBERG, E. G. (2004). Music lessons enhance IQ. Psychological Science, 15, 511-514. DOI: 10.1111/j.0956- 7976.2004.00711.x
14. SCHELLENBERG, E. G.,&MORENO, S. (2010).Music lessons, pitch processing, and g. Psychology of Music, 38, 209-221. DOI: 10.1177/0305735609339473
15. SCHELLENBERG, E. G., & WEISS, M.W. (2013). Music and cognitive abilities. In D. Deutsch (Ed.), The psychology of music (3rd ed., pp. 499-550). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
16. SCHÖN, D., MAGNE, C., & BESSON, M. (2004). The music of speech: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language. Psychophysiology, 41, 341-349. DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00172.x
17. SCHULZE, K., DOWLING, W. J., & TILLMANN, B. (2012). Working memory for tonal and atonal sequences during a forward and a backward recognition task. Music Perception, 29, 255-267. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2012.29.3.255
18. SCHULZE, K., MÜLLER, K., & KOELSCH, S. (2011). Neural correlates of strategy use during auditory working memory in musicians and non-musicians. European Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 189-196. DOI: 10.1111/j.1460- 9568.2010.07470.x
19. SCHULZE, K., ZYSSET, S., MUELLER, K., FRIEDERICI, A. D., & KOELSCH, S. (2011). Neuroarchitecture of verbal and tonal working memory in nonmusicians and musicians. Human Brain Mapping, 32, 771-783. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21060
20. TIERNEY, A. T., BERGESON-DANA, T. R., & PISONI, D. B. (2008). Effects of early musical experience on auditory sequence memory. Empirical Musicology Review, 3, 178-186.
21. WALLENTIN, M., NIELSEN, A. H., FRIIS-OLIVARIUS, M., VUUST, C., & VUUST, P. (2010). The Musical Ear Test. A new reliable test for measuring musical competence. Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 188-196. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.02.004
22. WECHSLER, D. (1997a). WAIS-III administration and scoring manual. San Antonio. TX: The Psychological Corporation.
23. WECHSLER, D. (1997b). Wechsler Memory Scale (3rd ed.). San Antonio. TX: The Psychological Corporation.
24. WECHSLER, D. (2008). Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS- IV, 4th ed.). San Antonio. TX: NCS Pearson.
25. WILLIAMSON, V. J., BADDELEY, A. D., & HITCH, G. J. (2010). Musicians' and nonmusicians' short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity. Memory and Cognition, 38, 163-175.