Children's Age-Related Intellectual Strategies for Dealing With Musical and Spatial Analogical Tasks

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ID10202114
AuthorsDavid J Nelson (0000-0002-9461-5182, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Anthony L Barresi (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Year1989
Volume37
Issue2
Pages93-103
Publication date1989-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Research in Music Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4294 • E-ISSN: 1945-0095
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3344701
OpenAlexW1995136504
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

The authors of this study sought to determine whether there is an age-related, common level of logic underlying responses to musical and spatial analogical tasks and to characterize these levels of logic in terms of similar intellectual strategies. Children ( N = 128) ranging in age from 6.5 to 12.5 years old were individually tested using author-designed Spatial Analogy Tasks (SANTs) and Musical Analogy Tasks (MANTs). Analyses of results indicated that (a) a sequential nature exists in a child's development of musical intellectual strategies; (b) this sequential development in music seems to parallel an age-related sequence in other areas of understanding (i.e., spatial concepts); and (c) a parallel, rather than identical, sequence between musical analogical reasoning and spatial analogical reasoning may be due to the complexity of musical concepts. That is, the musical tasks may have created a conceptual “overload” for this population of subjects

Analogical reasoning · Analogy · Art · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Developmental psychology · Intellectual development · Linguistics · Musical · Musical Development · Spatial Ability · Visual arts · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation

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