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General Intelligence and Modality-specific Differences in Performance: A Response to Schellenberg (2008)

Year: 2009

Type: article

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.

Source: Empirical Musicology Review

DOI: 10.18061/1811/36607

Authors: Adam T. Tierney, Tonya R. Bergeson, David B. Pisoni

Institutions: University of California San Diego, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University

Language: English

Topic: Neuroscience and Music Perception

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: G2469979092, Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition, TRAINING IN SPEECH, HEARING, AND SENSORY COMMUNICATION