General Intelligence and Modality-specific Differences in Performance: A Response to Schellenberg (2008)
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Date
2009-01
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Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
Tierney et al. (2008) reported that musicians performed better on an
auditory sequence memory task when compared to non-musicians, but the two
groups did not differ in performance on a sequential visuo-spatial memory task.
Schellenberg (2008) claims that these results can be attributed entirely to
differences in IQ. This explanation, however, cannot account for the fact that the
musicians’ advantage was modality-specific.
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Keywords
memory span, musical training, general aptitude, music performance, skilled musicians, sequence learning
Citation
Empirical Musicology Review, v4 n1 (January 2009), 37-39