Differences in Primary Mental Abilities Between Musicians and Nonmusicians

By N. Helmbold, Thomas Rammsayer, Eckart Altenmüller. 2005

102 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Music

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Sylvain Moreno
2. E. G. Schellenberg
3. K. Anders Ericsson
4. Mads Hansen
5. Peter Vuust
6. Mikkel Wallentin
7. Swathi Swaminathan
8. Safia Khalil

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. K. Anders Ericsson
2. Mads Hansen
3. E. G. Schellenberg
4. Peter Vuust
5. Sylvain Moreno
6. Mikkel Wallentin
7. John M. Keller
8. Tua Björklund

In Music

1. E. G. Schellenberg
2. K. Anders Ericsson
3. Mads Hansen
4. Peter Vuust
5. Sylvain Moreno
6. Mikkel Wallentin

Citations in the corpus

• Working memory and musical competence of musicians and non-musicians (2013, background): “Thus, these results are consistent with other studies reporting no visual-spatial WM enhancements for musicians (Brandler & Rammsayer, 2003; Chan & Kwok, 1999; Helmbold et al., 2005). Expert musicians significantly outperformed non-musicians on the MET. While experts did achieve higher mean MET scor”
• Why expert performance is special and cannot be extrapolated from studies of performance in the general population: A response to criticisms. (2014, background): “In support of the role of academic selection Helmbold, Rammsayer, and Altenmuller (2005) found that a group ofmusicmajors did not differ in intelligence from other university students.”
• Music lessons, pitch processing, and g (2010, background): “Rather, the trained group may have been more like ‘real’ musicians, who show no general intellectual advantage over musically untrained participants (Brandler & Rammsayer, 2003; Helmbold et al., 2005).”