Elizabeth Valentine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Valentine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Valentine |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTINE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emeritus Professor of Psychology Royal Holloway, University of London United Kingdom |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mind Maps
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices were compared. Engaging in these activities reduced tense arousal and increased energetic arousal, positive hedonic tone and heart rate. Effects were greater for swimming than for singing, with little difference between choral and solo singing. Possible mechanisms and the implications for mental well‐being are discussed
Quantity and quality of musical practice as predictors of performance quality
Twenty-two pianists, classified into four levels of skill, were asked to learn and memorize an assigned composition by J. S. Bach (different for each level). All practice was recorded on cassette tape. At the end of the learning process, the pianists performed their composition in a recital setting. The resulting performances were evaluated by three experienced piano teachers. From the cassette tapes, values for the quantity of practice were obta…
Memory champions
The seven contestants at the first World Memory Championships and three other subjects showing outstanding memory performance were administered a battery of memory tasks used in previous studies of superior memory performance. Evidence for both all‐round and more specific patterns of superior performance was found. The role of mnemonic techniques in relation to different types of task is discussed but evidence was also found for ‘natural’ superio…
Mnemonic wizardry with the telephone directory – But stories are another story
Results are reported from a study of a man (TM) who possesses exceptional memory abilities, which he demonstrates in a public performance. The same tests were given to him as have been used on a number of previous subjects with superior memory. He performed exceptionally well on recall of a word list, telephone numbers, names to faces and the spatial positions of pictures and on recognition of pictures of snow crystals, but was very poor at recal…
Relations Between Reading and Musical Abilities
S ummary . In two studies, groups of children with a wide range of reading ability and including a high proportion of poor readers were given Bentley's musical ability battery. Scores on tonal memory and chord analysis were related significantly to reading age with chronological age and IQ partialled out. The implications of these findings for views about component skills involved in reading and listening to music are discussed
One man's memory for prose, faces and names
Further studies are reported of a mnemonist, T.E., in which his memory for a story, faces and names for faces was studied. He scored at a high level on these tasks compared with control subjects, through the use of mnemonics, usually involving imagery. He scored highly on a test of imaginal thinking but not on verbal thinking
One man's memory
This paper reports a systematic study of a man (T.E.) with astonishing mnemonic skills. After a brief description of his most favoured mnemonic technique, the ‘figure alphabet’, his performance and the mnemonic techniques used on five classical memory tasks are described. These are: one task involving both short‐ and long‐term memory (the Atkinson‐Shiffrin ‘keeping track’ task), two tasks involving just long‐term memory (recall of number matrices…
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices were compared. Engaging in these activities reduced tense arousal and increased energetic arousal, positive hedonic tone and heart rate. Effects were greater for swimming than for singing, with little difference between choral and solo singing. Possible mechanisms and the implications for mental well‐being are discussed
Quantity and quality of musical practice as predictors of performance quality
Twenty-two pianists, classified into four levels of skill, were asked to learn and memorize an assigned composition by J. S. Bach (different for each level). All practice was recorded on cassette tape. At the end of the learning process, the pianists performed their composition in a recital setting. The resulting performances were evaluated by three experienced piano teachers. From the cassette tapes, values for the quantity of practice were obta…
One man's memory
This paper reports a systematic study of a man (T.E.) with astonishing mnemonic skills. After a brief description of his most favoured mnemonic technique, the ‘figure alphabet’, his performance and the mnemonic techniques used on five classical memory tasks are described. These are: one task involving both short‐ and long‐term memory (the Atkinson‐Shiffrin ‘keeping track’ task), two tasks involving just long‐term memory (recall of number matrices…
One man's memory
This paper reports a systematic study of a man (T.E.) with astonishing mnemonic skills. After a brief description of his most favoured mnemonic technique, the ‘figure alphabet’, his performance and the mnemonic techniques used on five classical memory tasks are described. These are: one task involving both short‐ and long‐term memory (the Atkinson‐Shiffrin ‘keeping track’ task), two tasks involving just long‐term memory (recall of number matrices…
One man's memory for prose, faces and names
Further studies are reported of a mnemonist, T.E., in which his memory for a story, faces and names for faces was studied. He scored at a high level on these tasks compared with control subjects, through the use of mnemonics, usually involving imagery. He scored highly on a test of imaginal thinking but not on verbal thinking
Relations Between Reading and Musical Abilities
S ummary . In two studies, groups of children with a wide range of reading ability and including a high proportion of poor readers were given Bentley's musical ability battery. Scores on tonal memory and chord analysis were related significantly to reading age with chronological age and IQ partialled out. The implications of these findings for views about component skills involved in reading and listening to music are discussed
Memory champions
The seven contestants at the first World Memory Championships and three other subjects showing outstanding memory performance were administered a battery of memory tasks used in previous studies of superior memory performance. Evidence for both all‐round and more specific patterns of superior performance was found. The role of mnemonic techniques in relation to different types of task is discussed but evidence was also found for ‘natural’ superio…
Mnemonic wizardry with the telephone directory – But stories are another story
Results are reported from a study of a man (TM) who possesses exceptional memory abilities, which he demonstrates in a public performance. The same tests were given to him as have been used on a number of previous subjects with superior memory. He performed exceptionally well on recall of a word list, telephone numbers, names to faces and the spatial positions of pictures and on recognition of pictures of snow crystals, but was very poor at recal…
Quantity and quality of musical practice as predictors of performance quality
Twenty-two pianists, classified into four levels of skill, were asked to learn and memorize an assigned composition by J. S. Bach (different for each level). All practice was recorded on cassette tape. At the end of the learning process, the pianists performed their composition in a recital setting. The resulting performances were evaluated by three experienced piano teachers. From the cassette tapes, values for the quantity of practice were obta…
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices
The effects of solo singing, choral singing and swimming on mood and physiological indices were compared. Engaging in these activities reduced tense arousal and increased energetic arousal, positive hedonic tone and heart rate. Effects were greater for swimming than for singing, with little difference between choral and solo singing. Possible mechanisms and the implications for mental well‐being are discussed
Mind Maps
Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Mnemonic (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works)