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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 2/2015

01-03-2015 | Original Article

Listening to music primes space: pianists, but not novices, simulate heard actions

Auteurs: J. Eric T. Taylor, Jessica K. Witt

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 2/2015

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Abstract

Musicians sometimes report twitching in their fingers or hands while listening to music. This anecdote could be indicative of a tendency for auditory-motor co-representation in musicians. Here, we describe two studies showing that pianists (Experiment 1), but not novices (Experiment 2) automatically generate spatial representations that correspond to learned musical actions while listening to music. Participants made one-handed movements to the left or right from a central location in response to visual stimuli while listening to task-irrelevant auditory stimuli, which were scales played on a piano. These task-irrelevant scales were either ascending (compatible with rightward movements) or descending (compatible with leftward movements). Pianists were faster to respond when the scale direction was compatible with the direction of response movement, whereas novices’ movements were unaffected by the scale. These results are in agreement with existing research on action–effect coupling in musicians, which draw heavily on common coding theory. In addition, these results show how intricate auditory stimuli (ascending or descending scales) evoke coarse, domain-general spatial representations.
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Note that although a descending (ascending) scale must be played with leftward (rightward) hand-finger movements, the arm movements that precedes the scale is independent; a pianist might reach rightward to initiate a descending scale, which would be performed with leftward movements.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Listening to music primes space: pianists, but not novices, simulate heard actions
Auteurs
J. Eric T. Taylor
Jessica K. Witt
Publicatiedatum
01-03-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0544-x

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