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| E G SchellenbergSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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Music training and emotion comprehension in childhoodE Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Emotion 12:887-91. 2012..Group differences in TEC scores disappeared, however, when IQ scores were held constant. These findings suggest that nonmusical associations with music training are limited to measures of intellectual ability and their correlates...- Examining the association between music lessons and intelligenceE Glenn Schellenberg
University of Toronto Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Br J Psychol 102:283-302. 2011.... 
Music listening and cognitive abilities in 10- and 11-year-olds: the blur effectE Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 1C6
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1060:202-9. 2005..These findings are consistent with the view that positive benefits of music listening on cognitive abilities are most likely to be evident when the music is enjoyed by the listener...- Children's implicit knowledge of harmony in Western musicE Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, Canada
Dev Sci 8:551-66. 2005..Performance was faster (Experiments 1, 2 and 3) and more accurate (Experiment 3) when the target was the tonic chord. The findings confirm that children have implicit knowledge of syntactic functions that typify Western harmony... - Music lessons enhance IQE Glenn Schellenberg
University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 15:511-4. 2004..Unexpectedly, children in the drama group exhibited substantial pre- to post-test improvements in adaptive social behavior that were not evident in the music groups... - Good pitch memory is widespreadE Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 14:262-6. 2003..These findings reveal that ordinary listeners retain fine-grained information about pitch level over extended periods. Adults' reportedly poor memory for pitch is likely to be a by-product of their inability to name isolated pitches... - Expectancy in melody: tests of children and adultsE Glenn Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
J Exp Psychol Gen 131:511-37. 2002..Older listeners also expected reversals of pitch direction, specifically for tones that changed direction after a disruption of proximity and for tones that formed symmetric patterns... - Culture-general and culture-specific factors in the discrimination of melodiesE G Schellenberg
University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
J Exp Child Psychol 74:107-27. 1999..Thus, increasing musical exposure seems to attenuate the effects of culture-general factors such as pattern redundancy while amplifying the influence of culture-specific factors... - Music and nonmusical abilitiesE G Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6
Ann N Y Acad Sci 930:355-71. 2001..Several studies have reported positive associations between formal music lessons and abilities in nonmusical (e.g., linguistic, mathematical, and spatial) domains. Nonetheless, compelling evidence for a causal link remains elusive... - Name that tune: identifying popular recordings from brief excerptsE G Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, Canada
Psychon Bull Rev 6:641-6. 1999..In sum, successful identification required the presence of dynamic, high-frequency spectral information... - Infants' and adults' perception of scale structureS E Trehub
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 25:965-75. 1999..Adults performed better on the familiar (major) unequal-step scale and equally poorly on both unfamiliar scales (Experiments 3 and 4). These findings are indicative of an inherent processing bias favoring unequal-step scales... - Expectancy in melody: tests of the implication-realization modelE G Schellenberg
Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Cognition 58:75-125. 1996..The consistency that was found across experimental tasks, musical styles, and listeners raises the possibility, however, that the revised version of the model may withstand the original model's claims of universality... - Perceiving prosody in speech. Effects of music lessonsWilliam Forde Thompson
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 999:530-2. 2003..In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhanced ability to extract prosodic information from spoken phrases... - Decoding speech prosody: do music lessons help?William Forde Thompson
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Emotion 4:46-64. 2004..The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear... - Developmental changes in the perception of pitch contour: distinguishing up from downStephanie M Stalinski
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
J Acoust Soc Am 124:1759-63. 2008..1 semitone). For all age groups, performance accuracy decreased as the size of the shift decreased. Performance improved from 5 to 8 years of age, reaching adult levels at 8 years... 
Perception of strong-meter and weak-meter rhythms in children with spina bifida meningomyeloceleTalar Hopyan
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:521-8. 2009..The attenuated strong-meter advantage in children with SBM shows that their rhythm deficits occur at the level of both perception and action, and may represent a central processing disruption of the brain mechanisms for rhythm...- Song recognition by children and adolescents with cochlear implantsTara Vongpaisal
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:1091-103. 2006..CONCLUSION: Current implant processors provide insufficient spectral detail for some aspects of music perception, but they do not preclude young implant users' enjoyment of music... - Arousal, mood, and the Mozart effectW F Thompson
Department of Psychology, Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Sci 12:248-51. 2001..Moreover, when such differences were held constant by statistical means, the Mozart effect disappeared. These findings provide compelling evidence that the Mozart effect is an artifact of arousal and mood... - Liking and memory for musical stimuli as a function of exposureKarl K Szpunar
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, Canada
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 30:370-81. 2004..In general, recognition improved as a function of previous exposure for focused listeners, but the effect was attenuated or absent for incidental listeners... - Infants' memory for musical performancesAnna Volkova
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada
Dev Sci 9:583-9. 2006..We conclude that infants' memory for musical performances is enhanced by the ecological validity of the materials. Moreover, infants' pitch preferences are influenced by their previous exposure and by the nature of the music... - Children With Cochlear implants recognize their mother's voiceTara Vongpaisal
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ear Hear 31:555-66. 2010..We predicted that the use of a highly familiar voice, full sentences, and a game-like task with feedback would lead to higher performance levels than those achieved in previous studies of talker identification in CI users... - Music, language and cognition: unresolved issuesE Glenn Schellenberg
Trends Cogn Sci 12:45-6. 2008 - Music recognition by Japanese children with cochlear implantsTakayuki Nakata
Department of Child Studies, Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University, Nagasaki, Japan
J Physiol Anthropol Appl Human Sci 24:29-32. 2005..Children gave favorable appraisals of the music even when they were unable to recognize it. Further research is needed to find means of enhancing cochlear implants users' perception and appreciation of music... - Implicit learning in children and adults with Williams syndromeAudrey J Don
Children 's Seashore House
Dev Neuropsychol 23:201-25. 2003..Performance advantages for the comparison group were no longer significant when group differences in working memory or nonverbal intelligence were held constant...