Barbara Tillmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Tillmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Tillmann |
| SIGNATURE | TILLMANN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9676-5822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Common Evidence, Multiple Interpretations
The multilab registered report by Grassi et al. represents the largest collaborative effort to date to estimate differences in short-term memory between musicians and nonmusicians, testing 1,200 participants across 33 units in 15 countries in an a priori registered design that adhered to open-science practices. Beyond providing precise effect-size estimates, the project exposed substantial diversity in how experts interpret the same data set, par…
Beyond pitch
The rhythmic priming effect in second language perception appears reliant on individuals' musical background
The potential transfer effect of musical expertise to auditory verbal working memory
Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate verbal working memory (WM) performance, but the findings lacked consistency. Given the overlapped auditory encoding process for language and music, there may be an association between one's native language background and the effects of musical expertise. In the present study, we investigate (1) the effects of musical expertise on verbal WM with different native language backgrounds and (2) the role o…
Impact of Native Language on Musical Working Memory
Music and language share similar sound features and cognitive processes, which may lead to bidirectional transfer effects of training in one domain on the processing in the other domain. We investigated the impact of native language on musical working memory by comparing nontonal language (Finnish) speakers and tonal language (Chinese) speakers. For both language backgrounds, musicians and nonmusicians were recruited. In an experimenter-monitored…
Situating language and music research in a domain‐specific versus domain‐general framework
While many theoretical proposals about the relationship between language and music processing have been proposed over the past 40 years, recent empirical advances have shed new light on this relationship. Many features are shared between language and music, inspiring research in the fields of linguistic theory, systematic musicology, and cognitive (neuro‐)science. This research has led to many and diverse findings, making comparisons difficult. I…
Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality
Most everyday experiences are multisensory, and all senses can trigger the conscious re-experience of unique personal events embedded in their specific spatio-temporal context. Yet, little is known about how a cue's sensory modality influences episodic memory, and which step of this process is impacted. This study investigated recognition and episodic memory across olfactory, auditory and visual sensory modalities in a laboratory-ecological task …
Measuring Children’s Harmonic Knowledge with Implicit and Explicit Tests
We used implicit and explicit tasks to measure knowledge of Western harmony in musically trained and untrained Canadian children. Younger children were 6–7 years of age; older children were 10–11. On each trial, participants heard a sequence of five piano chords. The first four chords established a major-key context. The final chord was the standard, expected tonic of the context or one of two deviant endings: the highly unexpected flat supertoni…
Auditory and visual short-term memory
Short-term memory has mostly been investigated with verbal or visuospatial stimuli and less so with other categories of stimuli. Moreover, the influence of sensory modality has been explored almost solely in the verbal domain. The present study compared visual and auditory short-term memory for different types of materials, aiming to understand whether sensory modality and material type can influence short-term memory performance. Furthermore, we…
Influence of Regular Rhythmic Versus Textural Sound Sequences on Semantic and Conceptual Processing
Conceptual priming studies have shown that listening to musical primes triggers semantic activation. The present study further investigated with a free semantic evocation task, 1) how rhythmic vs. textural structures affect the amount of words evoked after a musical sequence, and 2) whether both features also affect the content of the semantic activation. Rhythmic sequences were composed of various percussion sounds with a strong underlying beat …
Musical structure processing after repeated listening
The present study investigates whether expectations based on listeners’ schematic knowledge of music (related to tonal functions and reflected in harmonic priming) may be modulated by veridical expectancies (knowing what to come, here tested with repetition priming). It is well established that target chord processing is facilitated when the target acts as the most referential chord of the Western musical system (i.e., the tonic chord) in the pri…
Étudier les attentes musicales de l’auditeur non musicien
L’auditeur occidental devient sensible aux régularités du système musical tonal par simple exposition aux pièces musicales. Les connaissances implicites ainsi acquises permettent à l’auditeur de développer des attentes musicales sur les événements à venir. Ces attentes jouent un rôle dans l’expressivité musicale, mais elles influencent également le traitement des événements musicaux. Le paradigme d’amorçage musical est une méthode indirecte qui p…
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Étudier les attentes musicales de l’auditeur non musicien
L’auditeur occidental devient sensible aux régularités du système musical tonal par simple exposition aux pièces musicales. Les connaissances implicites ainsi acquises permettent à l’auditeur de développer des attentes musicales sur les événements à venir. Ces attentes jouent un rôle dans l’expressivité musicale, mais elles influencent également le traitement des événements musicaux. Le paradigme d’amorçage musical est une méthode indirecte qui p…
Musical structure processing after repeated listening
The present study investigates whether expectations based on listeners’ schematic knowledge of music (related to tonal functions and reflected in harmonic priming) may be modulated by veridical expectancies (knowing what to come, here tested with repetition priming). It is well established that target chord processing is facilitated when the target acts as the most referential chord of the Western musical system (i.e., the tonic chord) in the pri…
Influence of Regular Rhythmic Versus Textural Sound Sequences on Semantic and Conceptual Processing
Conceptual priming studies have shown that listening to musical primes triggers semantic activation. The present study further investigated with a free semantic evocation task, 1) how rhythmic vs. textural structures affect the amount of words evoked after a musical sequence, and 2) whether both features also affect the content of the semantic activation. Rhythmic sequences were composed of various percussion sounds with a strong underlying beat …
Measuring Children’s Harmonic Knowledge with Implicit and Explicit Tests
We used implicit and explicit tasks to measure knowledge of Western harmony in musically trained and untrained Canadian children. Younger children were 6–7 years of age; older children were 10–11. On each trial, participants heard a sequence of five piano chords. The first four chords established a major-key context. The final chord was the standard, expected tonic of the context or one of two deviant endings: the highly unexpected flat supertoni…
Auditory and visual short-term memory
Short-term memory has mostly been investigated with verbal or visuospatial stimuli and less so with other categories of stimuli. Moreover, the influence of sensory modality has been explored almost solely in the verbal domain. The present study compared visual and auditory short-term memory for different types of materials, aiming to understand whether sensory modality and material type can influence short-term memory performance. Furthermore, we…
Episodic memory and recognition are influenced by cues’ sensory modality
Most everyday experiences are multisensory, and all senses can trigger the conscious re-experience of unique personal events embedded in their specific spatio-temporal context. Yet, little is known about how a cue's sensory modality influences episodic memory, and which step of this process is impacted. This study investigated recognition and episodic memory across olfactory, auditory and visual sensory modalities in a laboratory-ecological task …
Impact of Native Language on Musical Working Memory
Music and language share similar sound features and cognitive processes, which may lead to bidirectional transfer effects of training in one domain on the processing in the other domain. We investigated the impact of native language on musical working memory by comparing nontonal language (Finnish) speakers and tonal language (Chinese) speakers. For both language backgrounds, musicians and nonmusicians were recruited. In an experimenter-monitored…
Situating language and music research in a domain‐specific versus domain‐general framework
While many theoretical proposals about the relationship between language and music processing have been proposed over the past 40 years, recent empirical advances have shed new light on this relationship. Many features are shared between language and music, inspiring research in the fields of linguistic theory, systematic musicology, and cognitive (neuro‐)science. This research has led to many and diverse findings, making comparisons difficult. I…
Beyond pitch
The rhythmic priming effect in second language perception appears reliant on individuals' musical background
The potential transfer effect of musical expertise to auditory verbal working memory
Musical expertise has been shown to facilitate verbal working memory (WM) performance, but the findings lacked consistency. Given the overlapped auditory encoding process for language and music, there may be an association between one's native language background and the effects of musical expertise. In the present study, we investigate (1) the effects of musical expertise on verbal WM with different native language backgrounds and (2) the role o…
Common Evidence, Multiple Interpretations
The multilab registered report by Grassi et al. represents the largest collaborative effort to date to estimate differences in short-term memory between musicians and nonmusicians, testing 1,200 participants across 33 units in 15 countries in an a priori registered design that adhered to open-science practices. Beyond providing precise effect-size estimates, the project exposed substantial diversity in how experts interpret the same data set, par…
Neuroscience and Music Perception (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (5 works) · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Communication (4 works)