Musical Training and Improved Visual-Spatial Working Memory, Verbal Working Memory and Processing Speed
2022-07
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Musical Training and Improved Visual-Spatial Working Memory, Verbal Working Memory and Processing Speed
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2022-07
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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.
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A Plan B thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Minnesota Duluth by Linlu Sun in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, July 2022. This item has been modified from the original to redact the signature present.
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Sun, Linlu. (2022). Musical Training and Improved Visual-Spatial Working Memory, Verbal Working Memory and Processing Speed. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228072.
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