Adults and children with typical development (TD) remember vocal melodies (without lyrics)
better than instrumental melodies, which is attributed to the biological and social …

Congenital amusia is a neurodevelopmental disorder of music processing, which includes
impaired pitch memory, associated to abnormalities in the right fronto-temporal network …

Vocal melodies sung without lyrics (la la) are remembered better than instrumental
melodies. What causes the advantage? One possibility is that vocal music elicits subvocal …

We have only a partial understanding of how people remember nonverbal information such
as melodies. Although once learned, melodies can be retained well over long periods of …

Humans spontaneously invent songs from an early age. Here, we exploit this natural
inclination to probe implicit musical knowledge in 33 untrained and poor singers (amusia) …

Recognition memory is better for vocal melodies than instrumental melodies. Here we
examine whether this vocal advantage extends to recall. Thirty-one violinists learned four …

Voices arguably occupy a superior role in auditory processing. Specifically, studies have
reported that singing voices are processed faster and more accurately and possess greater …

Spontaneous motor cortical activity during passive perception of action has been interpreted
as a sensorimotor simulation of the observed action. There is currently interest in how …

Melodic dictation is a cognitively demanding process that requires students to hear a
melody, then without any access to an external reference, transcribe the melody within a …

Memory is affected by stimulus salience. For example, vocal melodies are remembered
better than instrumental melodies, presumably because of their status as biologically …