Enculturation Effects in Music Cognition
The Role of Age and Music Complexity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10199341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven J Morrison (0000-0002-1036-9544, University of Washington, Seattle,, corresponding author), Steven M Demorest (University of Washington, Seattle), Laura A Stambaugh (0000-0002-7459-5890, University of Washington, Seattle) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118-129 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research in Music Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4294 • E-ISSN: 1945-0095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022429408322854 |
| OpenAlex | W2163932296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 37 |
The authors replicate and extend findings from previous studies of music enculturation by comparing music memory performance of children to that of adults when listening to culturally familiar and unfamiliar music. Forty-three children and 50 adults, all born and raised in the United States, completed a music memory test comprising unfamiliar excerpts of Western and Turkish classical music. Examples were selected at two levels of difficulty—simple and complex—based on texture, instrument variety, presence of simultaneous musical lines, and clarity of internal repetition. All participants were significantly better at remembering novel music from their own culture than from an unfamiliar culture. Simple examples from both cultures were remembered significantly better than complex examples. Children performed as well as adults when remembering simple music from both cultures, whereas adults were better at remembering complex Western music. The results provide evidence that enculturation affects one's understanding of music structure before adulthood
Active listening · Art · CLARITY · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Enculturation · Linguistics · Music education · Music psychology · Musical · Pedagogy · Repetition (rhetorical device · Visual arts · Communication · Diverse Music Education Insights · Music and Audio Processing · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology
Developing Musical Sensitivity and Creativity through Various Forms of Play Activities
Cultural Neuroscience
Beyond the ears
Steven MacGregor Demorest (1959-2019)
Descriptions of Improvisational Thinking by Expert Musicians Trained in Different Cultural Traditions
Processes and Experiences of Creative Cognition in Seven Western Classical Composers
Varied Musical Experiences and Openness of University Students in Turkey and the United States
Music Preferences and Family Language Background
About Crows and Nightingales
Effect of Intensive Instruction on Elementary Students’ Memory for Culturally Unfamiliar Music
Conservation of Melody With Varied Harmonizations
Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults
Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory
The magical number seven, plus or minus two
Musicians' and Nonmusicians' Preferences for World Musics
Student Song Preference in the Elementary Music Class
Children's Preference for Authentic versus Arranged Versions of World Music Recordings
Children's Ability to Demonstrate Music Concept Discriminations in Listening and Singing
Preference Responses and Use of Written Descriptors among Music and Nonmusic Majors in the United States, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China
Transfer of Preference from Taught to Untaught Pieces of Non-Western Music Genres
Affective consequences in adults and children of repeated exposure to auditory stimuli
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music
Songs in Their Heads
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |