Tamminen, J., Rastle, K., Darby, J. et al. (2 more authors) (2016) The impact of music on learning and consolidation of novel words. Memory. ISSN 1464-0686
Abstract
Music can be a powerful mnemonic device, as shown by a body of literature demonstrating that listening to text sung to a familiar melody results in better memory for the words compared to conditions where they are spoken. Furthermore, patients with a range of memory impairments appear to be able to form new declarative memories when they are encoded in the form of lyrics in a song, while unable to remember similar materials after hearing them in the spoken modality. Whether music facilitates the acquisition of completely new information, such as new vocabulary, remains unknown. Here we report three experiments in which adult participants learned novel words in the spoken or sung modality. While we found no benefit of musical presentation on free recall or recognition memory of novel words, novel words learned in the sung modality were more strongly integrated in the mental lexicon compared to words learned in the spoken modality. This advantage for the sung words was only present when the training melody was familiar. The impact of musical presentation on learning therefore appears to extend beyond episodic memory and can be reflected in the emergence and properties of new lexical representations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Memory. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Word learning; memory; music; memory consolidation; lexicalisation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Music (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2016 11:42 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2017 16:31 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1130843 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09658211.2015.1130843 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92607 |