| Title: |
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study |
| Authors: |
Grassi, Massimo; Talamini, Francesca; Altoè, Gianmarco; Brattico, Elvira; Caclin, Anne; Carretti, Barbara; Drai-Zerbib, Véronique; Ferreri, Laura; Gambarota, Filippo; Grahn, Jessica; Guiotto Nai Fovino, Lucrezia; Roccato, Marco; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Swaminathan, Swathi; Tillmann, Barbara; Vuust, Peter; Wilbiks, Jonathan; Zentner, Marcel; Aguilar, Karla; Aryanto, Christ, B; Assis Leite, Frederico, C; Baldé, Aíssa, M; Başkent, Deniz; Bishop, Laura; Kalsi, Graziela; Bouwer, Fleur, L; Calcus, Axelle; Carraturo, Giulio; Cepero-Escribano, Victor; Čerič, Antonia; Criscuolo, Antonio; Dairain, Léo; Dalla Bella, Simone; Daniel, Oscar; Danielsen, Anne; de Parcevaux, Anne-Isabelle; Dellacherie, Delphine; Endestad, Tor; Fialho, Juliana, L D B; Fitzpatrick, Caitlin; Fiveash, Anna; Fortier, Juliette; Fram, Noah, R; Fullone, Eleonora; Gloggengießer, Stefanie; Gonzalez Sanchez, Lucia; Gordon, Reyna, L; Groussard, Mathilde; Habibi, Assal; Hansen, Heidi, M U; Harding, Eleanor, E; Hawkins, Kirsty; Herff, Steffen, A; Holma, Veikka, P; Jakubowski, Kelly; Jol, Maria, G; Kalsi, Aarushi; Kandro, Veronica; Kelo, Rosaliina; Kotz, Sonja, A; Ladegam, Gangothri, S; Laeng, Bruno; Lee, André; Lense, Miriam; Lima, César, F; Limmer, Simon, P; Liu, Chengran, K; Martín Sánchez, Paulina, D C; Mcentyre, Langley; Michael, Jessica, P; Mirman, Daniel; Müllensiefen, Daniel; Najafi, Niloufar; Nokkala, Jaakko; Nzonlang, Ndassi; Oliveira, Maria Gabriela M.; Overy, Katie; Oxenham, Andrew, J; Passarotto, Edoardo; Plasse, Marie-Elisabeth; Platel, Herve; Poissonnier, Alice; Rajappa, Neha; Ritchie, Michaela; Rodrigues Menezes, Italo Ramon; Román-Caballero, Rafael; Roncaglia, Paula; Sa’adullah, Farrah; Saarikallio, Suvi; Sammler, Daniela; Samson, Séverine; Schellenberg, E, G; Serres, Nora, R; Slevc, L, R; Souffiane, Ragnya-Norasoa; Strauch, Florian, J; Strauss, Hannah; Tantengco, Nicholas; Tervaniemi, Mari; Thompson, Rachel; Timmers, Renee; Toiviainen, Petri; Trainor, Laurel, J; Tuske, Clara; Villanueva, Jed; von Bastian, Claudia, C; Whiteford, Kelly, L; Wood, Emily, A; Worschech, Florian; Zappa, Ana |
| Contributors: |
Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd); Universität Innsbruck Innsbruck = University of Innsbruck; Aarhus University Aarhus; Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA); Perception, Attention, Memory (CRNL-PAM); Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL); Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL); Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL); Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement Dijon (LEAD); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bourgogne Europe (UBE); University of Western Ontario (UWO); Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA); Universitat de Barcelona (UB); Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge = Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL); The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg Denmark (RAMA); University of New Brunswick (UNB); University of Sheffield Sheffield; Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya; Universidade Federal de São Paulo = Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP); University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE); University of Groningen Groningen; University of Oslo (UiO); Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP); Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University; Université libre de Bruxelles = Free University of Brussels (ULB); Computer Vision Center (Centre de visio per computador) (CVC); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB); Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Frankfurt am Main; Maastricht University Maastricht; Université de Montréal (UdeM); Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music Montreal, Canada (CRBLM); McGill University = Université McGill Montréal, Canada; Durham University; Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072 (PSITEC); Université de Lille; Helgeland Hospital Mosjoen, Norway; Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UNICSUL); Western Sydney University; Vanderbilt University Nashville; Neuropsychologie et imagerie de la mémoire humaine (NIMH); Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-GIP Cyceron (Cyceron); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-CHU Caen Normandie – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen Normandie (CHU Caen Normandie); Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-CHU Caen Normandie – Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen Normandie (CHU Caen Normandie); Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); University of Southern California (USC); University of London London; The University of Sydney; University of Jyväskylä (JYU); University System of Maryland; Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig (IMPNSC); Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; The University of Edinburgh; Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media; Technische Universität Munchen = Technical University Munich = Université Technique de Munich (TUM); Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR); Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville; University of Minnesota System (UMN); McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario; Tilburg University Netherlands; Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire reConnect Paris (IHU reConnect); Institut Pasteur Paris (IP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Fondation pour l'audition Paris; Institut de l'Audition Paris (IdA); Institut Pasteur Paris (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité); Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); University of Toronto at Mississauga |
| Source: |
ISSN: 2515-2459. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; [SAGE Publications] |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
preregistration; open materials; open data; cognitive abilities; multilab; nonmusicians; music training; musicians; [SCCO]Cognitive science |
| Description: |
International audience ; Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicians with more than 10 years of music training and practice) are compared with nonmusicians. A frequently observed behavioral finding is a short-term memory advantage of the former over the latter. Although available meta-analysis reported that the effect size of this advantage is medium (Hedges’s g = 0.5), no literature study was adequately powered to estimate reliably an effect of such size. This multilab study has been ideated, realized, and conducted in lab by several groups that have been working on this topic. Our ultimate goal was to provide a community-driven shared and reliable estimate of the musicians’ short-term memory advantage (if any) and set a method and a standard for future studies in neuroscience and psychology comparing musicians and nonmusicians. Thirty-three research units recruited a total of 600 experienced musicians and 600 nonmusicians, a number that is sufficiently large to estimate a small effect size (Hedges’s g = 0.3) with a high statistical power (i.e., 95%). Subsequently, we measured the difference in short-term memory for musical, verbal, and visuospatial stimuli. We also looked at cognitive, personality, and socioeconomic factors that might mediate the difference. Musicians had better short-term memory than nonmusicians for musical, verbal, and visuospatial stimuli with an effect size of, respectively, Hedges’s g s = 1.08 (95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.94, 1.22]; large), 0.16 (95% CI = [0.02 0.30]; very small), and 0.28 (95% CI = [0.15, 0.41]; small). This work sets the basis for sound research practices in studies comparing musicians and nonmusicians and contributes to the ongoing debate on the possible cognitive benefits of musical training. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/25152459251379432 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-05382213; https://hal.science/hal-05382213v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-05382213v1/file/Grassi_2025_AMPPS.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251379432 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.428CD3E7 |
| Database: |
BASE |