Musicians have better memory -- not just for music, but words and pictures too... - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Apr 12
  

  Kylie Popovich

  cognitive musicians memory

• 24 May 09
  

  Andrew Murphie

  memory cognition music brain tecintense

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  memory cognition music brain tecintense

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  Qien Kuen

  brain memory music

  • Most studies show that musicians have better memory for words than non-musicians, but there's less evidence that musicians can remember spatial information better. In one study, musicians couldn't recall locations on a map any better than non-musicians.
  • The researchers also paid careful attention to how the students were recalling both the words and pictures. Musicians, they found, used different strategies. With words, they were more likely than non-musicians to group the words into similar categories (like "eagle" and "robin"). With the pictures, non-musicians tried to verbalize the pictures, while musicians did not.
• 23 May 09
  

  richtbreak

  music memory mind

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  Todd Suomela

  memory music cognition cognitive-science psychology

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  Gerhard Stoltz

  2009 brain memory music musician research test technique

  • The musicians performed significantly better than non-musicians in every test except the short-delay free recall. So this confirmed the previous research suggesting that musicians are better than non-musicians at remembering words.
• 22 May 09
  

  agujas1207

  psychology cogdaily memory

• 21 May 09
  

  Borne Mace

  cognitive musicians memory

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