October 28, 2017

Musicians have better memories

Pacific Standard - A new meta-study concludes musicians tend to have stronger short-term and working-memory skills than their non-musical counterparts. The research, published in the online journal PLoS One, finds they also appear to have a small advantage in terms of long-term memory.

"Musicians perform better than non-musicians in memory tasks," writes a research team led by University of Padua psychologist Francesca Talamini. The Italian scholars offer several possible explanations for this, but concede that "none of them seem able to explain all the results."

The researchers found "a slight superiority of musicians over non-musicians" in long-term memory tasks, and a larger one in both short-term and working-memory tasks.

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