the researchers assessed the verbal memory of each subject by the number of chinese words the subjects could recall in a list-learning task in which a 16-word list was presented orally three times to each subject . their visual memory was also assessed by the benton visual retention test and the rey-osterreith complex figure test 試驗者接受了一項語言記憶力測試,在細(xì)心聆聽一些中文詞語之后,她們便要立即憑記憶說出這些詞語。結(jié)果顯示三十位童年時曾經(jīng)接受過音樂訓(xùn)練的試驗者,比那些沒有接受過音樂訓(xùn)練的試驗者能多記百分之十七的文字資料。