This study explored the validity of an integrative framework for verbal and musical short-term memory (STM). Following this framework, access to domain-specific long-term knowledge bases supports the processing of musical and verbal item information in STM, while domain-general ordering processes support the representation of serial order information in the two domains. We exposed participants to verbal and musical STM tasks assessing either item information, order information, or both item and order information. Using an interindividual differences approach, we observed that performance in item-based STM tasks was not strongly associated between musical and verbal domains. In contrast, strong between-domain associations were observed for STM tasks assessing processing of verbal order and musical rhythm information. These preliminary results are overall in agreement with an integrative approach of verbal and musical STM. At the same time, the results highlight the difficulty of measuring serial order processing in the musical STM domain in a direct and specific manner.

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语言和音乐短期记忆：共享串行订单过程的证据？

本研究探讨了语言和音乐短期记忆 (STM) 综合框架的有效性。遵循这个框架，访问特定领域的长期知识库支持 STM 中音乐和语言项目信息的处理，而领域通用排序过程支持两个域中序列顺序信息的表示。我们让参与者接受口头和音乐 STM 任务，评估项目信息、订单信息或项目和订单信息。使用个体差异方法，我们观察到基于项目的 STM 任务的表现在音乐和语言领域之间没有很强的关联。相比之下，在评估语言顺序和音乐节奏信息处理的 STM 任务中观察到强域间关联。这些初步结果总体上与口头和音乐 STM 的综合方法一致。同时，结果突出了以直接和具体的方式测量音乐 STM 领域中串行顺序处理的难度。