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Do musicians have better executive function?
When I started my PhD on language and music in memory I spent a good few months, as you do, reading everything I could get my hands on to do with my new topic. I wanted to know all about the evidence for language and music processing overlap. Fairly quickly I came upon “music transfer effects” –typically correlation studies that test musicians and nonmusicians on cognitive tasks to see if there is a group difference. If the groups are well matched and the musicians do better on the task then the temptation is to suggest that the music training improved cognitive function in this area. There are several pitfalls to…
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PhD studentship opportunity
Now it is not often that I will do a direct reference to jobs in music psychology (unless you want me to – if so let me know!), but I had to mention one that floated in my inbox the other day. It is not often that you see 7…yes 7…PhD studentships in the same place! In a world where it seems that opportunities for funding are going down I thought this was a very encouraging sign. I know I never would have been able to afford to do my PhD without studentship support so I think it is important that as many people as possible have the chance to…
