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Implicit knowledge and memory for musical stimuli in musicians and non-musicians.
Thorpe, Lisa Cousins, Margaret Bramwell, Ros
Thorpe, Lisa
Cousins, Margaret
Bramwell, Ros
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2019-03-21
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The phoneme monitoring task used by Bigand, Tillmann, Poulin, D’Adamo and Madurell (2001) is a musical priming paradigm that demonstrates that both musicians and non-musicians have gained implicit understanding of prevalent harmonic structures. Little research has focused on implicit music learning in musicians and non-musicians. This current study aimed to investigate whether the phoneme monitoring task would identify any implicit memory differences between musicians and non-musicians. It focuses on both implicit knowledge of musical structure and implicit memory for specific musical sequences. Thirty-two musicians and non-musicians (19 female and 13 male) were asked to listen to a seven-chord sequence and decide as quickly as possible whether the final chord ended on the syllable /di/ or /du/. Overall, musicians were faster at the task, though non-musicians made more gains through the blocks of trials. Implicit memory for musical sequence was evident in both musicians and non-musicians. Both groups of participants reacted quicker to sequences that they had heard more than once but showed no explicit knowledge of the familiar sequences.
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Thorpe, L., Cousins., M., & Bramwell, R. (2019). Implicit knowledge and memory musical stimuli in musicians and non-musicians. Psychology of Music, 0305735619833456.
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SAGE Publications
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Psychology of Music
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0305-7356
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1741-3087