Projects per year
Abstract
Music involves different senses and is emotional in nature, and musicians show enhanced detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies and emotion recognition compared to non-musicians. However, whether musical training produces these enhanced abilities or if they are innate within musicians remains unclear. Thirty-one adult participants were randomly assigned to a music training, music listening, or control group who all completed a one-hour session per week for 11 weeks. The music training group received piano training, the music listening group listened to the same music, and the control group did their homework. Measures of audio-visual temporal discrepancy, facial expression recognition, autistic traits, depression, anxiety, stress and mood were completed and compared from the beginning to end of training. ANOVA results revealed that only the music training group showed a significant improvement in detection of audio-visual temporal discrepancies compared to the other groups for both stimuli (flash-beep and face-voice). However, music training did not improve emotion recognition from facial expressions compared to the control group, while it did reduce the levels of depression, stress and anxiety compared to baseline. This RCT study provides the first evidence of a causal effect of music training on improved audio-visual perception that goes beyond the music domain.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Article number | 20087 |
Journal | Scientific Reports |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 22 Nov 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank Mr. Adrian Snell for providing us with valuable insights into music therapy and offering us the opportunity to shadow his sessions for one semester. Mr. Snell’s work has been an inspiration for this research. Also, we are very grateful to all the participants who devoted their time to take part in this study.
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'An RCT study showing few weeks of music lessons enhance audio-visual temporal processing'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Active
-
Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA) - 2.0
Campbell, N. (PI), Cosker, D. (PI), Bilzon, J. (CoI), Campbell, N. (CoI), Cazzola, D. (CoI), Colyer, S. (CoI), Cosker, D. (CoI), Lutteroth, C. (CoI), McGuigan, P. (CoI), O'Neill, E. (CoI), Petrini, K. (CoI), Proulx, M. (CoI) & Yang, Y. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/11/20 → 31/10/25
Project: Research council