Trial reportMemory & cognition2014
Singing can facilitate foreign language learning.
Trial report in Memory & cognition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Musical Mnemonics in Cognitively Unimpaired Individuals and Individuals with Alzheimer's Dementia: A Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- A tradeoff between musical tension perception and declarative memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Trial
- 'Today, I'll manage, but not all days!' Adult refugees' meaning-making of learning and coping with trauma and other emotional distress while in language training programmes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Sounds of creativity: musical, creative, and language factors associated with singing and creative singing.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Singing Enhances Poetry Learning and Memorization in Preschool Children.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Trusting self-evaluation: predicting music and language performance from subjective ratings.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The influence of musicality on expressive fable reading: adult- and child-directed perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of musical aspects of language in human cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The song that never ends: The effect of repeated exposure on the development of an earworm.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Misjudgement of One's Own Performance? Exploring Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADHD) and Individual Difference in Complex Music and Foreign Language Perception.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- What Makes a Foreign Language Intelligible? An Examination of the Impact of Musical Ability and Individual Differences on Language Perception and How Intelligible Foreign Languages Appear.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Examining Individual Differences in Singing, Musical and Tone Language Ability in Adolescents and Young Adults with Dyslexia.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Singing Mandarin? What Short-Term Memory Capacity, Basic Auditory Skills, and Musical and Singing Abilities Reveal About Learning Mandarin.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Webcams, Songs, and Vocabulary Learning: A Comparison of In-Person and Remote Data Collection as a Way of Moving Forward With Child-Language Research.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- It's in our hands: a rapid, international initiative to translate a hand hygiene song during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of hospital infection · 2020Article
- Infants Segment Words from Songs-An EEG Study.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- How the Brain Understands Spoken and Sung Sentences.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the mnemonic effect of songs after stroke.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Early Influence of Musical Abilities and Working Memory on Speech Imitation Abilities: Study with Pre-School Children.Brain sciences · 2018Article
- Correlation between musical aptitude and learning foreign languages: an epidemiological study in secondary school Italian students.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2018Article
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Abstract
This study presents the first experimental evidence that singing can facilitate short-term paired-associate phrase learning in an unfamiliar language (Hungarian). Sixty adult participants were randomly assigned to one of three "listen-and-repeat" learning conditions: speaking, rhythmic speaking, or singing. Participants in the singing condition showed superior overall performance on a collection of Hungarian language tests after a 15-min learning period, as compared with participants in the speaking and rhythmic speaking conditions. This superior performance was statistically significant (p < .05) for the two tests that required participants to recall and produce spoken Hungarian phrases. The differences in performance were not explained by potentially influencing factors such as age, gender, mood, phonological working memory ability, or musical ability and training. These results suggest that a "listen-and-sing" learning method can facilitate verbatim memory for spoken foreign language phrases.
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