Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Publication Title
Empirical Musicology Review
First Page
37
Last Page
39
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/36607
Abstract
Tierney et al. (2008) reported that musicians performed better on an auditory sequence memory task when compared to non-musicians, but the two groups did not differ in performance on a sequential visuo-spatial memory task. Schellenberg (2008) claims that these results can be attributed entirely to differences in IQ. This explanation, however, cannot account for the fact that the musicians’ advantage was modality-specific.
Rights
This article was originally published in Empirical Musicology Review , 2008, Volume 4, Issue 1. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
Tierney, A. T., Bergeson, T. R., & Pisoni, D. B. (2009). General intelligence and modality-specific differences in performance: a response to Schellenberg (2008). Empirical Musicology Review, 4(1), 37-39.
