Francesca Talamini

Musizieren macht nicht unbedingt klüger Das Erlernen und Üben eines Musikinstruments macht nicht unbedingt klüger. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Studie unter Beteiligung von Forschenden aus Innsbruck. Bisher wurde allgemein angenommen, dass Mu...

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Learning to play a musical instrument is often assumed to improve brain functioning & cognition. To test this, a new #RSOS study compared non-musicians, amateur & professional #musicians: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @francescatalamini.bsky.social @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: no advantage for professionals over amateurs Abstract. Cognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater mus

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I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise:

url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!

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Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer... Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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JOB OFFER: 4-year PostDoc position in the field of music psychology. Join us at the University of Innsbruck, in the heart of Austrian Alps!
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In Italian we say "squadra che vince non si cambia", something like "you don't quit a winning team"💪
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Hi David, I would be happy to be added :) thanks!