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A specific relationship between musical sophistication and auditory working memory.
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- Auditory-cognitive contributions to speech-in-noise perception determined with structural equation modelling of a large sample.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reliable Web-Based Auditory Cognitive Testing: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Introducing ART: A new method for testing auditory memory with circular reproduction tasks.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Auditory Processing in Musicians, a Cross-Sectional Study, as a Basis for Auditory Training Optimization.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Performance on stochastic figure-ground perception varies with individual differences in speech-in-noise recognition and working memory capacity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Predicting speech-in-noise ability in normal and impaired hearing based on auditory cognitive measures.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Pitch discrimination is better for synthetic timbre than natural musical instrument timbres despite familiarity.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Learning to play a musical instrument in the middle school is associated with superior audiovisual working memory and fluid intelligence: A cross-sectional behavioral study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Auditory Working Memory Mediates the Relationship Between Musical Sophistication and Speech-In-Noise Perception.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Previous studies have found conflicting results between individual measures related to music and fundamental aspects of auditory perception and cognition. The results have been difficult to compare because of different musical measures being used and lack of uniformity in the auditory perceptual and cognitive measures. In this study we used a general construct of musicianship, musical sophistication, that can be applied to populations with widely different backgrounds. We investigated the relationship between musical sophistication and measures of perception and working memory for sound by using a task suitable to measure both. We related scores from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index to performance on tests of perception and working memory for two acoustic features-frequency and amplitude modulation. The data show that musical sophistication scores are best related to working memory for frequency in an analysis that accounts for age and non-verbal intelligence. Musical sophistication was not significantly associated with working memory for amplitude modulation rate or with the perception of either acoustic feature. The work supports a specific association between musical sophistication and working memory for sound frequency.
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