Memory for Melodies

Halpern, Andrea R.; Bartlett, James C.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6114-3_8

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“…Thus, item characteristics as modeled by the computational features predicted implicit and explicit memory performance in people both with absolutely no training and those with some training. This finding is in line with a number of prior studies (summarized in Halpern & Bartlett, 2010) showing that performance in standard memory paradigms for melodies are relatively insensitive to specific training (or the innate skills) of musicians.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…This suggests that explicit memory tasks might be more dependent on individual encoding strategies and incidental associations than implicit memory. Learning novel melodic items in a sequential paradigm is a difficult task (see Halpern & Bartlett, 2010, for a review) often resulting in modest Features and Context 429 memory scores. It would thus be interesting to see whether feature models for explicit and implicit memory would substantially differ for data from an experimental paradigm with multiple exposures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The representations are accurate in that someone can typically say if there is a wrong note in a familiar tune (Dowling, Bartlett, Halpern, & Andrews, 2008) and memory for tunes seems to last over one's lifetime (Bartlett & Snelus, 1981). On the other hand, encoding of new music is quite difficult (Halpern & Bartlett, 2010). Sometimes a tune sounds familiar but it turns out that it is only similar to one we knew in the past, creating false alarms.…”

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The Role of Features and Context in Recognition of Novel Melodies

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“…Overall memory performance did not improve over the three listening sessions but, with increasing exposure, performance became worse, and confidence became lower, for unpredictable stimuli. This suggests that participants were learning the statistical regularities describing the stimuli rather than the particular exemplars themselves (Cleeremans et al, 1998;Halpern & Bartlett, 2010;Loui et al, 2010;Saffran et al, 1999;Stadler & Frensch, 1998). Had we used fewer and/or more brief stimuli, recognition memory performance might have been better (see Loui & Wessel, 2008), but this would also likely have resulted in less abstraction of the underlying statistical relationships across stimuli (Cleeremans et al, 1998).…”

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Information‐Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory

2017

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A basic function of cognition is to detect regularities in sensory input to facilitate the prediction and recognition of future events. It has been proposed that these implicit expectations arise from an internal predictive coding model, based on knowledge acquired through processes such as statistical learning, but it is unclear how different types of statistical information affect listeners' memory for auditory stimuli. We used a combination of behavioral and computational methods to investigate memory for non-linguistic auditory sequences. Participants repeatedly heard tone sequences varying systematically in their information-theoretic properties. Expectedness ratings of tones were collected during three listening sessions, and a recognition memory test was given after each session. Information-theoretic measures of sequential predictability significantly influenced listeners' expectedness ratings, and variations in these properties had a significant impact on memory performance. Predictable sequences yielded increasingly better memory performance with increasing exposure. Computational simulations using a probabilistic model of auditory expectation suggest that listeners dynamically formed a new, and increasingly accurate, implicit cognitive model of the information-theoretic structure of the sequences throughout the experimental session.

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“…Memory retention through music seems to be amongst the most enduring of all memory types (Halpern & Bartlett, 2010).…”

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Rhythm2Recovery: A Model of Practice Combining Rhythmic Music with Cognitive Reflection for Social and Emotional Health within Trauma Recovery

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2017

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Rhythm pervades life in almost every context, from the smallest pulsating atom to the epic scale of our expanding universe. In our behaviour we are creatures of rhythm, following, initiating, and embedding patterns from the moment we are born, and within our physical anatomy rhythm is ever present, from our beating heart, through the rise and fall of our lungs and across the firing of our neurons. Healing traditions across all cultures invoke the rhythms of music, and the latest research from the field of neuro-biology into the way this element impacts the brain, reinforces this traditional knowledge and provides a new understanding of the real potential for rhythmic music to be utilised in therapy. This article details the use of rhythmic music in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy as a model for practitioners working with those recovering from trauma, and the supporting evidence validating this approach. Since 2003 this model has been utilised in diverse settings from behavioural centres for young people at risk to refugee trauma centres, forensic psychiatric wards in prisons, and child and adult mental health services. Currently over 4,000 professionals across 20 different countries have completed training in this model. Consistent feedback has highlighted the value of this model in engaging clients not readily engaged in 'talk-based' therapies, increasing social connection, and reducing psychological distress. The benefits of playing music socially with others, and of rhythmic music specifically, include increased levels of social integration, improvements in affect, mood stabilisation, reductions in anxiety and depression, and increases in self-esteem. When combined with exercises that draw attention and initiate reflection on important life issues, such as improving relationships and overcoming adversity, this has the added benefit of utilising the whole brain and embedding learning at a deeper level.

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Memory for Melodies

Cited by 43 publications

References 62 publications

The Role of Features and Context in Recognition of Novel Melodies

The Role of Features and Context in Recognition of Novel Melodies

Information‐Theoretic Properties of Auditory Sequences Dynamically Influence Expectation and Memory

Rhythm2Recovery: A Model of Practice Combining Rhythmic Music with Cognitive Reflection for Social and Emotional Health within Trauma Recovery

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