Cross‐sectional study on the relationship between music training and working memory in adults
| Autor: | Lidia Suárez, Shalini Elangovan, Alma Au |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Working memory
05 social sciences Cognition 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Visual processing 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Visual memory Memory span 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Childhood memory Visual short-term memory Verbal memory Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery General Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Australian Journal of Psychology. 68:38-46 |
| ISSN: | 1742-9536 0004-9530 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ajpy.12087 |
| Popis: | Learning to play musical instruments has been shown to enhance a wide variety of cognitive domains. The present study investigated the specific aspects of working memory (WM) that differed between adult musicians and non-musicians. Twenty-four musicians and 30 non-musicians matched for age, gender, years of formal education, and verbal intelligence performed several WM tasks. A multivariate analysis of covariance, wherein family income was controlled, revealed that musicians outperformed non-musicians in tasks related to visual–motor coordination, visual scanning ability, visual processing speed, and spatial memory. However, no significant differences were found in phonological and visual memory capacity. This study supports the view that music training is associated to specific (and not general) WM skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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