Memory & Cognition

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A comparison of serial order short-term memory effects across verbal and musical domains

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Abstract

Recent studies suggest that the mechanisms involved in the short-term retention of serial order information may be shared across short-term memory (STM) domains such as verbal and visuospatial STM. Given the intrinsic sequential organization of musical material, the study of STM for musical information may be particularly informative about serial order retention processes and their domain-generality. The present experiment examined serial order STM for verbal and musical sequences in participants with no advanced musical expertise and experienced musicians. Serial order STM for verbal information was assessed via a serial order reconstruction task for digit sequences. In the musical domain, serial order STM was assessed using a novel melodic sequence reconstruction task maximizing the retention of tone order information. We observed that performance for the verbal and musical tasks was characterized by sequence length as well as primacy and recency effects. Serial order errors in both tasks were characterized by similar transposition gradients and ratios of fill-in:infill errors. These effects were observed for both participant groups, although the transposition gradients and ratios of fill-in:infill errors showed additional specificities for musician participants in the musical task. The data support domain-general serial order STM effects but also suggest the existence of additional domain-specific effects. Implications for models of serial order STM in verbal and musical domains are discussed.

Keywords

Serial order Working memory Music cognition Musical expertise Language and music 
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Author note

This research was supported by the Fund for Scientific Research–FNRS under a FRESH doctoral grant to Simon Gorin; by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) under a grant PAI-IUAPP7/11 to Simon Gorin and Steve Majerus; by the University of Liège under a grant ARC12/17/01REST to Steve Majerus.

Authors contributions

The authors’ contributions are reported following the CRediT taxonomy (see http://docs.casrai.org/CRediT). Conceptualization: S.G. and S.M.; Formal analysis: S.G.; Funding acquisition: S.G. and S.M.; Investigation: S.G.; Methodology: S.G. and S.M.; Project administration: S.G. and S.M.; Software: P.M.; Supervision: S.G. and S.M.; Validation: S.G.; Visualization: S.G. and S.M.; Writing–original draft: S.G. and S.M.

Compliance with ethical standards

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any competing interest that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest and that the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Data availability

All relevant data are available through the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/6kvrz/).

Finally, all the participants provided their written informed consent before starting the experiment, and the study had been approved by the Ethical Board of the Faculty of Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, and Education of the University of Liège.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Cognitive DevelopmentUniversité de GenèveGenèveSwitzerland
  2. 2.Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit (PsyNCog)University of LiègeLiègeBelgium
  3. 3.Fund for Scientific Research–FNRSBrusselsBelgium

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