Perceptual and motor laterality effects in pianists during music sight-reading

D’Anselmo, Anita; Giuliani, Felice; Marzoli, Daniele; Tommasi, Luca; Brancucci, Alfredo

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.03.026

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“…In the current study all participants were right-handed and responded to speech stimuli, and finding greater left laterality for non-musicians than musicians was therefore expected. Furthermore, the musicians all had piano or keyboard as their main or secondary instrument, implying bimanual activity while playing the instrument, and consistent with indications for greater bilateral activity playing using both hands such as a piano (Haslinger et al, 2004; d'Anselmo et al, 2015), no laterality was observed for the musicians in the current study.…”

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Musical Expertise Affects Audiovisual Speech Perception: Findings From Event-Related Potentials and Inter-trial Phase Coherence

Sorati¹,

Behne²

2019

Front. Psychol.

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In audiovisual speech perception, visual information from a talker's face during mouth articulation is available before the onset of the corresponding audio speech, and thereby allows the perceiver to use visual information to predict the upcoming audio. This prediction from phonetically congruent visual information modulates audiovisual speech perception and leads to a decrease in N1 and P2 amplitudes and latencies compared to the perception of audio speech alone. Whether audiovisual experience, such as with musical training, influences this prediction is unclear, but if so, may explain some of the variations observed in previous research. The current study addresses whether audiovisual speech perception is affected by musical training, first assessing N1 and P2 event-related potentials (ERPs) and in addition, inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC). Musicians and non-musicians are presented the syllable, /ba/ in audio only (AO), video only (VO), and audiovisual (AV) conditions. With the predictory effect of mouth movement isolated from the AV speech (AV−VO), results showed that, compared to audio speech, both groups have a lower N1 latency and P2 amplitude and latency. Moreover, they also showed lower ITPCs in the delta, theta, and beta bands in audiovisual speech perception. However, musicians showed significant suppression of N1 amplitude and desynchronization in the alpha band in audiovisual speech, not present for non-musicians. Collectively, the current findings indicate that early sensory processing can be modified by musical experience, which in turn can explain some of the variations in previous AV speech perception research.

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Musical Expertise Affects Audiovisual Speech Perception: Findings From Event-Related Potentials and Inter-trial Phase Coherence

Sorati¹,

Behne²

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Recent advances in brain-monitoring technology have provided new insights into how pitch and rhythm are processed during sight-reading. For example, D’Anselmo, Giuliani, Marzoli, Tommasi, and Brancucci (2015) validated the commonly held view that pianists experiencing difficulties during sight-reading frequently omit playing some of the notes in the left hand. The study found hemispheric brain asymmetries during sight-reading of musical notation, with a bias towards the right hand when playing both hands together.…”

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Experiential (informal/non-formal) practice does not improve sight-reading skills

Zhukov

2016

Musicae Scientiae

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This study investigates whether experiential (informal/non-formal) sight-reading practice has an impact on sight-reading skills of classical university-level pianists. Data collected from 80 self-report practice diaries of students participating in trials of new sight-reading pedagogies were analysed to evaluate the effect of experiential sight-reading practice on improvement in sight-reading performance, focusing on the overall duration of sight-reading activities accumulated over the 10-week period and different patterns across this time. Data were subjected to bivariate regressions and bivariate correlations analyses. Results showed that improvement in sight-reading performance on three out of the four key indicators (beat adjustment, extra notes and missing notes) could not be predicted by participants' overall hours of experiential practice. Yet the total number of hours engaged in sight-reading practice did predict an improvement in participant RMS accuracy (average timing errors for each correct note played). Findings also revealed no consistent pattern of practice across the 10 weeks that was associated with any of the four performance indicators. Implications for education include the need to embrace multi-faceted approaches to sight-reading training by focusing on skills contributing to expert sight-reading and their development, individually and in combinations. Rhythm and pitch training, development of pattern recognition and prediction skills, and collaborative playing activities have the potential to enhance sight-reading skills of music undergraduates and have positive flow-on effects for their preparation for 21st century music careers.

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“…The lack of SNARC effect is also confirmed by the not significant interaction between the Keys arrangement and banknotes’ value, which would have been expected if numerical processing had been involved. However, a stimulus-response compatibility resembling the Simon Effect ( Simon and Wolf, 1963 ; Hommel, 2011 ; D’Anselmo et al, 2015 ) was found. Responders were faster to select the proper response “yes, it is a banknote” when both 5€ and 100€ were shown to the side associated to that response (left in the group u-yes, and right in the group p-yes).…”

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Side Biases in Euro Banknotes Recognition: The Horizontal Mapping of Monetary Value

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Money is a special stimulus for humans, because of its relevance in everyday life. However, the basic mechanisms underlying money representation have not yet been fully investigated. Left-right asymmetries in the visual perception and evaluation of monetary value offer such a possibility. The pattern of these asymmetries can contribute to disentangle between numerical and emotional processes possibly involved in banknotes perception. In the present experiment, we tested the recognition of 5€and 100€ banknotes presented in the left and right visual fields. Results show that the 100€ banknote is recognized faster than the 5€ banknote in the Right Visual Field (RVF), while there is no difference in the Left Visual Field (LVF). Our interpretation is that this effect is due to the matching between the positive valence conveyed by the 100€ banknote and the side in which it is mapped (right-positive). We consider this result as evidence of a valence-based recognition of banknotes.

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Perceptual and motor laterality effects in pianists during music sight-reading

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

Musical Expertise Affects Audiovisual Speech Perception: Findings From Event-Related Potentials and Inter-trial Phase Coherence

Musical Expertise Affects Audiovisual Speech Perception: Findings From Event-Related Potentials and Inter-trial Phase Coherence

Experiential (informal/non-formal) practice does not improve sight-reading skills

Side Biases in Euro Banknotes Recognition: The Horizontal Mapping of Monetary Value

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