Research Interests

Music psychology:

• Music expertise and cognitive skills
• Music aptitude
• Music emotions
• Contour perception

Cognition:

• Working memory
• Relationship between working memory and perception 

Methods:

• Replication studies
• Meta-analysis

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Publications

• Vigl, J., Strauss, H., Talamini, F., Zentner, M. (In press). Relationship Satisfaction in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-National Examination of Situational, Dispositional, and Relationship Factors. PLOS one.
  
• Talamini, F., Vigl, J., Doerr, E., Grassi, M., Carretti, B. (2022). Auditory and Visual Mental Imagery in Musicians and Nonmusicians. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211062724
  
• Blain, S., Talamini, F., Fornoni, L., Bidet-Caulet, A., Caclin, A. (2022). Shared cognitive resources between memory and attention during sound sequence encoding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02390-2 
  
• Ginzburg, J., Moulin, A., Fornoni, L., Talamini, F., Tillmann, B., Caclin, A. (2021). Development of auditory cognition in 5- to 10-year-old children: focus on musical and verbal short-term-memory. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13188
• Talamini, F., Blain, S., Ginzburg, J., Houix, O., Bouchet, P., Grassi, M., Tillmann, B., Caclin (2021). Auditory and visual short-term memory: Influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise. Psychological Research, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01519-0
  
• Talamini, F., Grassi, M., Toffalini, E., Santoni, R., & Carretti, B. (2018). Learning a second language: Can music aptitude or music training have a role?. Learning and Individual Differences, 64, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.04.003
  
• Bruzzi, E., Talamini, F., Priftis, K., & Grassi, M. (2017). A SMARC Effect for Loudness. i-Perception, 8(6), 2041669517742175. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517742175
  
• Talamini, F., Altoè, G., Carretti, B., & Grassi, M. (2017). Musicians have better memory than nonmusicians: A meta-analysis. PloS one, 12(10), e0186773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191776
  
• Talamini, F., Carretti, B., & Grassi, M. (2016). The working memory of musicians and nonmusicians. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(2), 183-191. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2016.34.2.183
  
  

Conference Contributions

• Poster, July 2021: "Auditory and visual short-term memory in musicians and nonmusicians: influence sensory modality, material type and contour".  International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition ICMPC-ESCOM. Online.
• Poster, June 2019: “Shared and distinct mechanisms in auditory and visual short-term memory: Influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise”. The dynamic and flexible nature of memory, Lyon (France). 
• Talk, June 2017: “The Working Memory of Musicians and Nonmusicians”. Music, Language, & Cognition Summer School, Como (Italy).
• Talk, February 2017: “Musicians have a better memory than nonmusicians: a meta-analysis”. Cognitive Science Arena, Brixen (Italy). 
• Talk, November 2016: "Musicians have a better memory than nonmusicians: a meta-analysis". The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, Trieste (Italy).
• Poster, September 2016: "Do musicians have better memory than nonmusicians? A meta-analysis". AIP Experimental Psychology National Meeting, Rome (Italy).
• Talk, September 2016: “Musicians have Better Memory than Nonmusicians. A Meta-analysis”. EWOMS, Liège (Belgium).
• Talk, February 2016: "The Working Memory of Musicians and Nonmusicians". Cognitive Science Arena, Brixen (Italy).
• Talk, September 2015: "Auditory, Visual and Audiovisual Working Memory in Musicians and Nonmusicians". AIP Experimental Psychology National Meeting, Rovereto (italy).