Sensitivity to sequential structure in musical savants.
Eight pianists with mild to moderate degrees of mental retardation and 8 comparison subjects were asked to duplicate chord sequences of varying length and musical structure in an immediate memory format. All participants were sensitive to the structural dimensions of the material, and differences between groups were restricted to the least structured material.
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Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680, USA.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010898:Pitch Perception