Congenital Amusia: A Short-Term Memory Deficit for Non-Verbal, but Not Verbal Sounds

Autor/inn/en	Tillmann, Barbara; Schulze, Katrin; Foxton, Jessica M.
Titel	Congenital Amusia: A Short-Term Memory Deficit for Non-Verbal, but Not Verbal Sounds
Quelle	In: Brain and Cognition, 71 (2009) 3, S.259-264 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-2626
DOI	10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.003
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Memorization; Music; Cognitive Processes; Intonation; Neurological Impairments; Task Analysis; Measures (Individuals); Control Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Gedächtnistraining; Musik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Aufgabenanalyse; Messdaten
Abstract	Congenital amusia refers to a lifelong disorder of music processing and is linked to pitch-processing deficits. The present study investigated congenital amusics' short-term memory for tones, musical timbres and words. Sequences of five events (tones, timbres or words) were presented in pairs and participants had to indicate whether the sequences were the same or different. The performance of congenital amusics confirmed a memory deficit for tone sequences, but showed normal performance for word sequences. For timbre sequences, amusics' memory performance was impaired in comparison to matched controls. Overall timbre performance was found to be correlated with melodic contour processing (as assessed by the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia). The present findings show that amusics' deficits extend to non-verbal sound material other than pitch, in this case timbre, while not affecting memory for verbal material. This is in line with previous suggestions about the domain-specificity of congenital amusia. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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