Music training and semantic clustering in college students.
College students with 5 or more years of music training recalled significantly more words from a 16-item word list than did students with 0-4 years of training. The superior recall of the extensively trained students linked to better application of a semantic-clustering strategy across a series of 3 test trials. Music education and language experience may have similar influences on the development of verbal memory.
Hogan
David E
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Northern Kentucky University, Department of Psychology, Highland Heights, KY 41099, USA. hogan@nku.edu
Huesman
Thomas
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D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D009146:Music; D012660:Semantics; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching; D014495:Universities