Gorin Simon, Majerus Steve
Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit (PsyNCog), University of Liège, BE.
Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS, Brussels, BE.
Psychol Belg. 2019 May 16;59(1):177-205. doi: 10.5334/pb.426.
This study explored the validity of an integrative framework for verbal and musical short-term memory (STM). Following this framework, access to domain-specific long-term knowledge bases supports the processing of musical and verbal item information in STM, while domain-general ordering processes support the representation of serial order information in the two domains. We exposed participants to verbal and musical STM tasks assessing either item information, order information, or both item and order information. Using an interindividual differences approach, we observed that performance in item-based STM tasks was not strongly associated between musical and verbal domains. In contrast, strong between-domain associations were observed for STM tasks assessing processing of verbal order and musical rhythm information. These preliminary results are overall in agreement with an integrative approach of verbal and musical STM. At the same time, the results highlight the difficulty of measuring serial order processing in the musical STM domain in a direct and specific manner.
本研究探讨了言语和音乐短期记忆（STM）综合框架的有效性。按照该框架，访问特定领域的长期知识库支持STM中音乐和言语项目信息的处理，而通用排序过程支持这两个领域中序列顺序信息的表征。我们让参与者进行言语和音乐STM任务，评估项目信息、顺序信息，或项目与顺序信息。采用个体差异方法，我们观察到基于项目的STM任务中的表现，在音乐和言语领域之间没有强关联。相反，在评估言语顺序和音乐节奏信息处理的STM任务中，观察到了强烈的领域间关联。这些初步结果总体上与言语和音乐STM的综合方法一致。同时，结果凸显了以直接且具体的方式测量音乐STM领域中序列顺序处理的难度。
