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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Meher Lad, Dr Sukhbinder Kumar, Professor Tim GriffithsORCiD
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© 2022. The Author(s). Previous studies have found conflicting results between individual measures related to music and fundamental aspects of auditory perception and cognition. The results have been difficult to compare because of different musical measures being used and lack of uniformity in the auditory perceptual and cognitive measures. In this study we used a general construct of musicianship, musical sophistication, that can be applied to populations with widely different backgrounds. We investigated the relationship between musical sophistication and measures of perception and working memory for sound by using a task suitable to measure both. We related scores from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index to performance on tests of perception and working memory for two acoustic features-frequency and amplitude modulation. The data show that musical sophistication scores are best related to working memory for frequency in an analysis that accounts for age and non-verbal intelligence. Musical sophistication was not significantly associated with working memory for amplitude modulation rate or with the perception of either acoustic feature. The work supports a specific association between musical sophistication and working memory for sound frequency.
Author(s): Lad M, Billig AJ, Kumar S, Griffiths TD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Scientific reports
Year: 2022
Volume: 12
Issue: 1
Online publication date: 03/03/2022
Acceptance date: 22/02/2022
Date deposited: 04/04/2022
ISSN (electronic): 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07568-8
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07568-8
PubMed id: 35241747
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