Musicians have better memory -- not just for music, but words...
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Saved by 5 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-05-21
- Ibbertelsen on 2009-05-24 - Tags memory , cognition , music , brain , tecintense
- Qienkuen on 2009-05-24 - Tags brain , memory , music
- Tsuomela on 2009-05-23 - Tags memory , music , cognition , cognitive-science , psychology
- Jrstoltz on 2009-05-23 - Tags 2009 , brain , memory , music , musician , research , test , technique
- Bornemace on 2009-05-21 - Tags cognitive , musicians , memory
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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.
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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.
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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.
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