In music, tonal memory or "aural recall" is the ability to remember a specific tone after it has been heard.
[6] The result of the first experiment revealed that the responses of test subjects that listened to isochronous tones revealed quality remembrance in expected and unexpected targets in major tonal context compared to moderately expected targets.
[6] The final experiment used atonal melodies that showed how participants were struggling to decipher each musical tone due to the absence of tonal structure.
[6] Lilach's research, along with her colleagues, aimed to experiment on how working memory fully functions when combining memorized music information.
Using the visual-auditory method was proved to be a practical tool for related studies of short term-memory for verbal and tonal medium.
[8] Two researchers Farbood and Mavromatis studied on how tonal conditions influence pitch recognition.
[10] In the research conducted by Vuvan and her associates, the first experiment aimed to figure out whether the expectancies that are made by tonal melody will affect the memory for single tones.
[6] These participants listened to an American melody in G-major and right after heard a single probe tone.
[7] The experiment Williamson conducted involved thirty-two people who were considered amateur musicians and had at least eight years of training whether it be instrument or vocal.
[8] Farbood and Mavromatis's experiment had thirty-four participants who were musicians and had years of formal music training.
Each tonal memory test had 60 items of different types of tones to hear and answer.