SYMPOSIUM: SOME RESULTS OF CURRENT RE- 
SEARCH IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY 
OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 
INTRODUCED BY C. E. SEASHORE 
Investigations at the psychological laboratory are at the present 
time centering upon two general fields which are more or less 
closely related; namely, the Psychology of Music, and the Psy- 
chology of Basic Motor Capacities. The former is represented 
essentially by the first six titles, and the latter by the last six. 
The work in our laboratory has for a number of years been 
characterized by team work shown not only in the unit cooper- 
ation represented in this program, but also by team work reaching 
backward in that several of the problems here represented are 
m'erely the present link in the chain of previous investigations 
by other persons on the same subject in this laboratory. Our aim 
is to put one man after another upon a problem that has once 
been taken up until the cumulative results reach a satisfactory 
state. 
This team work has great advantages in that it enables those 
who direct the research to concentrate their energies, not only for 
one year but for a series of years, upon the same problem, and, 
as we cannot employ research specialists for life, this dovetailing 
together of apprentice periods of research students is found to be 
a very happy procedure. Furthermore, research students, like 
certain plum trees, grow best in bunches, and the shoulder to 
shoulder codperation upon related problems is a stimulus to 
achievement. 
THE TALENT SURVEY IN OUR MUSIC SCHOOL 
ESTHER AELEN GAW 
The forty-six students who are majoring in music have been 
given a series of psychological tests during the year 1919-1920. 
The tests for sense of pitch, sense of intensity, sense of time, sense 
of consonance, and tonal memory were given not only to those 
majoring in music, but also to the large groups in harmony and 
history of music, by means of the phonograph disks. The large 
