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Extremely high capacity.
People not only remember the gist but also an incredible amount of detail (Brady, Konkle, Alvarez, & Olivia, 2008).
In order to equate visual and auditory memory performance, we needed high-quality environmental sounds and severely degraded visual images.
Historically, musicians have shown increased ability in a variety of tasks over nonmusicians.
Musicians can more easiely detect melody, certain sounds and pitch than non musicians.
Might musical training augment an individuals ability to remember not only music, but nonmusical sounds as well?
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Is the superiority of visual recognition memory over auditory recognition memory a by-product of the dominance of the visual modality in humans?
Is the reason we have better visual memory over auditory memory because humans are naturally more visually stimulated?
Musiciains
Non-Musiciains
Both, not significantly different in their ages or socioeconomic status.
60-172 stimuli were presented for between 5 and 12 seconds in the study phase.
In the test phase, the same stimuli were presented and the subject had to classify each stimulus as old or new.
Musiciains
Both, not significantly different in their ages or average educational score.
In the test phase, the same stimuli were presented and the subject had to classify each stimulus as old or new.
(Cohen, Evans, Horowitz, Wolfe, 2011)