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19751937

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-27
pubmed:abstractText
The present study aimed at investigating to what extent sensorimotor synchronization is related to (i) musical specialization, (ii) perceptual discrimination, and (iii) the movement's trajectory. To this end, musicians with different musical expertise (drummers, professional pianists, amateur pianists, singers, and non-musicians) performed an auditory and visual synchronization and a cross-modal temporal discrimination task. During auditory synchronization drummers performed less variably than amateur pianists, singers and non-musicians. In the cross-modal discrimination task drummers showed superior discrimination abilities which were correlated with synchronization variability as well as with the trajectory. These data suggest that (i) the type of specialized musical instrument affects synchronization abilities and (ii) synchronization accuracy is related to perceptual discrimination abilities as well as to (iii) the movement's trajectory. Since particularly synchronization variability was affected by musical expertise, the present data imply that the type of instrument improves accuracy of timekeeping mechanisms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1873-6297
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
133
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
28-37
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Perception in action: the impact of sensory information on sensorimotor synchronization in musicians and non-musicians.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't