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24 May 09

Musicians have better memory -- not just for music, but words and pictures too : Cognitive Daily

  • 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.
17 Jun 08

Mozart, MD - Music for the Mind and Body | Brain Blogger

  • A study in Critical Care Medicine evaluated the mechanisms of music-induced relaxation in critically ill patients.
  • Researchers found that patients who listened to the sonatas required less medication to achieve a comparable level of sedation, compared to those who didn’t.
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