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    Musical Training and Improved Visual-Spatial Working Memory, Verbal Working Memory and Processing Speed
    (2022-07) Sun, Linlu
    The current study used a musical skill task—Profile of Music Perception Skills, Mini Version (Mini-PROMS)—to standardize the assessment of musical training for investigating the relationship between musical training and cognitive skills including visual-spatial working memory, verbal working memory, and processing speed. The study also aimed to explore whether musicians who have better verbal working memory do so because they can process information faster (mediation analysis). Thirty-four students from University of Minnesota Duluth participated in the experiment and completed Mini-PROMS and cognitive skill tasks. Musicians had faster processing speed, and those who had better melody skills had better visual-spatial and verbal working memory, as well as processing speed. Musicians who had better accent skills had better processing speed. No mediated correlation was found.