A behavioral study on tonal working memory in musicians and non-musicians.

ABSTRACT: Tonal working memory (WM) refers to the maintenance and the online manipulation of tonal information and has been suggested to involve different mechanisms than verbal WM. Previous research has suggested that verbal WM performance is determined by the duration instead of the number of verbal materials. We investigated in the present study to what degree that the number and the duration of notes in a sequence influence the tonal WM in participants with or without professional musical training. The forward tonal discrimination task in Experiment 1 tested the maintenance of the tonal information and the backward N-back tonal task in Experiment 2 probed the running memory span of tonal information. Results show that the number of notes, but not the duration of notes in a tone sequence signific

SUBMITTER: Ding Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084024 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature