Music training and mental imagery ability

Alemán, André; Nieuwenstein, Mark; Böcker, K.B.E.; Haan, Edward H.F. de

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(00)00079-8

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“…Interestingly, suppression impairment was mediated by amount of musical experience; musically experienced participants were less susceptible to interference from musical suppression for visually presented music than were less experienced participants. This is consistent with the general effect that the ability to form auditory (musical) images tends to increase with musical experience (Aleman, Neiuwenstein, Bocker, & de Haan, 2000).…”

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Suppression effects on musical and verbal memory

Schendel

Palmer

2007

Memory & Cognition

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Suppression effects on musical and verbal memory

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Palmer

2007

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“…In addition, improved auditory imagery ability has been observed in musically trained subjects (Aleman, Nieuwenstein, Bocker, & de Haan, 2000). Musical imagery can even be triggered by music notation symbols whose decoding is dependent on musical training (Brodsky, Henik, Rubinstein, & Zorman, 2003).…”

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Descriptions of Improvisational Thinking by Artist-Level Jazz Musicians

Norgaard

2011

Journal of Research in Music Education

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Thought processes of seven artist-level jazz musicians, each of whom recorded an improvised solo, were investigated. Immediately after completing their improvisations, participants listened to recordings of their playing and looked at the notation of their solos as they described in a directed interview the thinking processes that led to the realization of their improvisations. In all of the interviews, artists described making sketch plans, which outlined one or more musical features of upcoming passages. The artists also described monitoring and evaluating their own output as they performed, making judgments that often were incorporated into future planning. Four strategies used by the artists for generating the note content of the improvisations emerged from the analysis: recalling well-learned ideas from memory and inserting them into the ongoing improvisation, choosing notes based on a harmonic priority, choosing notes based on a melodic priority, and repeating material played in earlier sections of the improvisation.

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“…The sample was chosen on the basis of previous evidence that musical training develops auditory imagery skills that do not necessarily exist among nonmusicians (Aleman et al, 2000;Halpern, 1992). According to Aleman et al, the effects of musical training on auditory imagery may account for a far higher percentage of variance among musicians than do other components, including attention and memory (which involve enhanced ability to organize and manipulate musical information in working memory).…”

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“…But, for the majority of musically naive (untrained) people, music may still be a predominantly external experience. For example, musically naive individuals have been found to be significantly worse than highly trained individuals on all auditory imagery tasks (involving both music and everyday sounds), but not on visual imagery tasks (Aleman, Nieuwenstein, Bocker, & de Haan, 2000). The ability of…”

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Auditory imagery from musical notation in expert musicians

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Henik

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Anecdotal evidence has suggested that musical notation can trigger auditory images. Expert musicians silently read scores containing well-known themes embedded into the notation of an embellished phrase and judged if a tune heard aloud thereafter was the original theme (i.e., melodic target) or not (i.e., melodic lure). Three experiments were conducted employing four score-reading conditions: normal nondistracted reading, concurrent rhythmic distraction, phonatory interference, and obstruction by auditory stimuli. The findings demonstrate that phonatory interference impaired recognition of original themes more than did the other conditions. We propose that notational audiation is the silent reading of musical notation resulting in auditory imagery. The research suggests that it also elicits kinesthetic-like phonatory processes.

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Music training and mental imagery ability

Cited by 140 publications

References 16 publications

Suppression effects on musical and verbal memory

Suppression effects on musical and verbal memory

Descriptions of Improvisational Thinking by Artist-Level Jazz Musicians

Auditory imagery from musical notation in expert musicians

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