Musicians' and nonmusicians' short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity.
Language–music comparative studies have highlighted the potential for shared resources or neural overlap in auditory short-term memory. However, there is a lack of behavioral methodologies for comparing verbal and musical serial recall. We developed a visual grid response that allowed both musicians...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 163 - 176 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
March 2010
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