Attentional flexibility and memory capacity in conductors and pianists

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• 作者：Clemens Wöllner ; Andrea R. Halpern
• 关键词：Selective and divided attention ; Working memory ; Long ; term memory ; Multimodal ; Expertise ; Cognitive aging
• 刊名：Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：78
• 期：1
• 页码：198-208
• 全文大小：552 KB
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• 作者单位：Clemens Wöllner (1)
  Andrea R. Halpern (2)
  
  1. Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  2. Psychology Department, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
  
• 刊物主题：Cognitive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1943-393X

文摘

Individuals with high working memory (WM) capacity also tend to have better selective and divided attention. Although both capacities are essential for skilled performance in many areas, evidence for potential training and expertise effects is scarce. We investigated the attentional flexibility of musical conductors by comparing them to equivalently trained pianists. Conductors must focus their attention both on individual instruments and on larger sections of different instruments. We studied students and professionals in both domains to assess the contributions of age and training to these skills. Participants completed WM span tests for auditory and visual (notated) pitches and timing durations, as well as long-term memory tests. In three dichotic attention tasks, they were asked to detect small pitch and timing deviations from two melodic streams presented in baseline (separate streams), selective-attention (concentrating on only one stream), and divided-attention (concentrating on targets in both streams simultaneously) conditions. Conductors were better than pianists in detecting timing deviations in divided attention, and experts detected more targets than students. We found no group differences for WM capacity or for pitch deviations in the attention tasks, even after controlling for the older age of the experts. Musicians’ WM spans across multimodal conditions were positively related to selective and divided attention. High-WM participants also had shorter reaction times in selective attention. Taken together, conductors showed higher attentional flexibility in successfully switching between different foci of attention.