MEMORY AND LEARNING IN MUSIC COGNITION AND PERCEPTION

记忆和学习是音乐加工的关键组成部分，但仍然缺乏对这些过程的实证研究。 很明显，在现有的文献中，这一缺陷的主要原因涉及难以制定一个可行的方法来针对各种研究问题。 随后，这种缺乏研究的结果在一些潜在的研究问题尚未得到解决。 这项提案的重点是调查音乐记忆如何在试验中发展，以及可能促进音乐记忆和学习的潜在因素。因此，本研究计划的具体目的是：1）发展一套系统的方法论，使研究者可以通过该方法论来研究音乐记忆和学习（从现有的曲目）; 2）研究音乐记忆和学习如何在重复回忆中发展; 3）研究呈现风格、训练模式和学习策略等因素对音乐记忆和学习的影响程度;（4）研究音乐和语言处理之间的潜在相似或分离。希望这项研究不仅能提供更好地促进音乐处理的方法（例如，音乐教育），但也使我们可以根据涉及其他人群的正在进行的研究（例如，老化、半球损伤）。 功能的下降或分离可以为更好地理解认知过程中的信息通路提供关键线索。

Memory and learning are critical components in music processing, yet there remains a dearth in the empirical investigation of these processes. It is evident within the existing literature that the primary reason for this deficiency involves difficulty in developing a workable methodology to target various research questions. Subsequently, this lack of research results in a number of potential research questions yet to be addressed. This proposal focuses on investigating how memory for music develops across trials, and potential factors that may facilitate memory for and learning of music. As such, the specific aims of this research proposal are to: 1) develop a systematic methodology through which researchers may study memory for and learning of music (from the existing repertoire); 2) examine how musical memory and learning develops over repeated recall; 3) examine the extent to which factors such as presentation style, mode of training, and learning strategy affects memory for and learning of music; 4) examine potential parallels or dissociation between music and speech processing. It is hoped that this research will not only provide methods to better facilitate music processing in general (e.g., music education), but also so that we may consider this work in light of ongoing research involving other populations (e,g., aging, hemispheric impairment). Decline or dissociation in function can lead to critical clues to better understand information pathways in cognitive processing.